LAND
HERMIT CRAB LINKS
Australia
Life
and Adaptions to Water - Land Hermit crab
Information
from the Museum of South Australia about the land hermit crab,
Coenobita perlatus, in the wild. Information on Mangroves and
threats to land hermit crabs in the Darwin area. "Land hermit
crab : Coenobita perlatus. Coen = common obita = downhill, destruction
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/water/hermit.htm
Fun
Quicktime
Movie of a C. perlatus hermie
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/water/media/crab.mov
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/bio/zoo/kingler.htm
http://www.rottnest.wa.gov.au/about/flora.htm
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~thebobo/kimberley.htm
Seychelles
Island
Land
Hermit Crabs on Seychelles
http://www.geocities.com/ericdemuylder/coenobit.htm
Includes:
Family
: Coenobitidae
Genus : Birgus - Species : Birgus latro L.
Genus
: Coenobita - (species found on the Seychelles islands)
Coenobita
perlata
Coenobita perlata
Coenobita brevimanus
Coenobita brevimanus
Coenobita
cavipes
Species : Other Coenobitidae - (not occuring in Seychelles)
Coenobita
purpurea in an Achatina shell
Coenobita sp.
UNITED
STATES
The
Invasion of Land by the Post-Larval Stage of the Terrestrial Hermit
Crab, Coenobita compressus (Ecuadorian
Land Hermit Crab):
The Importance of Larval Age and Preliminary Evidence for a Developmental
Clock
http://www.zoology.washington.edu/gss/index.html
Movements
of the terrestrial hermit crab
http://www.ots.ac.cr/rbt/revistas/suplemen/honduras/16brod1.htm
Basic
Classification of Coenobita Clypeatus
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/zooary/zoo/arthropods/hermit_crab.html
Thacker,
R.W. 1998. Avoidance of recently eaten foods by land hermit
crabs, Coenobita compressus. Animal Behaviour 55: 485-496.
Thacker,
R.W. 1996. Food choices of land hermit crabs (Coenobita
compressus H. Milne Edwards) depend on past experience. Journal
of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 199: 179-191.
Thacker,
R.W. 1994. Volatile shell-investigation cues of land hermit
crabs: effect of shell fit, detection of cues from other hermit
crab species, and cue isolation. Journal of Chemical Ecology
20(7): 1457-1482.
Small,
M.P. and R.W. Thacker. 1994. Land hermit crabs use
odors of dead conspecifics to locate shell sources. Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 182: 169-182.
http://www.uab.edu/uabbio/thacker.htm
RESEARCH
ARTICLES on Land Hermit Crabs
Bertness,
MD, (1981) Predation, physical stress, and the organization
of a tropical rocky intertidal hermit crab community. Ecology
62:411-425
Childress,
JR, (1972) Behavioural ecology and fitness theory in a tropical
hermit crab. Ecology 53:960-964
D.D.
1988. Taking a crab's eye view of the world. Science News 133(March
12):167.
Gherardi,
F, Zatteri, F, Vannini, M (1994) Hermit crabs in a mangrove
swamp: the structure of Clibanarius laevimanus clusters. Mar.
Biol. 121:41-52
Lively,
CM, (1988) A graphical model for shell-species selection by
hermit crabs. Ecology 69:1233-1238
Thacker,
R.W. 1998. Avoidance of recently eaten foods by land hermit
crabs, Coenobita compressus. Animal Behaviour 54(February).
Vance,
RR (1972) Competition and mechanism of coexistence of three
sympatric species of intertidal hermit crabs. Ecology 53:1062-1083
Wilber
Jr, TP, Herrnkind, WF (1984) Predaceous gastropods regulate
new shell supply to salt marsh hermit crabs. Mar. Biol. 79:145-15
The
Coconut Crab: aspects of Birgus latro biology and ecology in
Vanuatu
Authors: Brown, I.W. and Felden, S.R
Monographs
MN08, 1991
Summary
This publication details the methods used and the important
results obtained from the ACIAR sponsored project 'Growth
and recruitment of coconut crab populations in Vanuatu'. The
research was done in response to a request by the Government
of the Republic of Vanuatu of information on the coconut crab
Birgus latro which could be widely and easily disseminated.
It is hoped non-scientists as well as scientists will appreciate
the coconut crab as the valuable commodity it is believed
to be, and will stimulate everyone involved in the management
of renewable natural resources, particularly in the small
islands of the Pacific, to become more active in conserving
the remaining stocks of coconut crabs. Summaries of these
results are included in this volume.
United
Kingdom
Ecology
of tropical hermit crabs at Quirimba Island, Mozambique: a novel
and locally important food source
Marine
Ecology Progress Series MEPS 161:299-302 (1997)
David K. A. Barnes. Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology,
University College Cork, Lee Maltings, Cork, Ireland** and Frontier,
The Society for Environmental Exploration, London, United Kingdom
http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v161/p299-302.html
MARINE
HERMIT CRAB LINKS
Australia
The
Biology of the Hermit Crab
This
website produced by the "Crustacea Laboratory at Museum Victoria" is an invaluable resource for research on the topic if Hermit
Crabs. The information is not specifically about land-based hermit
crabs but it does cover issues such as Anatomy, Reproduction,
Sense Organs and Distribution. There is a wonderful photo of a
Hermit Crab zoea (infant stage of hermit crab) which is a must
to see.
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/crust/hermbiol.html
Australian
Museum Fact Sheets - Arthropods
Interesting
site on Arthropods. Points covered:
* What are arthropods? * What are their origins?
* What arthropod research is the Australian Museum doing?
http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/arthropods.htm
United
Kingdom
Crustacea
(British Marine Life Study Society
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/crustace.htm
Hermit
Crabs (NE Atlantic) - Younger Readers version of the above
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Hermits.htm
Anomura
(NE Atlantic) - Great pic of hermit crab showing 5th legs
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Anomura.htm
Hermit
Crabs in Torbay
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Hermit4.htm
BMLSS
: Crustacea: moulting, changing shells
United
States
Hermit
Crab Houses and Their Stinging Guests
By Randy Brooks
http://miavx1.muohio.edu/dragonfly/houses/hermit.html
Introducing
the Hermit Crab
Interesting
webpage on hermit crabs. Includes pen drawings of hermit crabs
in and out of their shell.Text and illustrations by Ton Veltman
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pal/hermit.htm
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