Coenobita purpureus

Hamasaki, Katsuyuki, Tsuru, Takuma, Sanda, Tetsuya, Fujikawa, Shunsuke, Dan, Shigeki & Kitada, Shuichi, 2017, Ontogenetic change of body color patterns in laboratory-raised juveniles of six terrestrial hermit crab species, Zootaxa 4226 (4), pp. 521-545 : 533

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.4.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EE63479-7793-42FB-BDC6-7602068C347A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6004798

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3F1D0E35-6341-701C-68EB-46F5B8ECF811

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Coenobita purpureus
status

 

Coenobita purpureus View in CoL

The juveniles exhibit a whitish/creamy color (Fig, 9A–F, 10A–C). The shield has a pale brownish patch on the anterior lower part of each side wall in some juveniles with an SL of> 1.6 mm after two months of age ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 B). The chelipeds and the second and third pereiopods are generally pale brown at the distal and proximal parts of each segment; they appear to have pale brownish rings at the boundaries between segments ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 A–F, 10A, B). The carpi of the pereiopods generally have a pale greyish stripe on the middle part in juveniles with an SL of> 1.6 mm after two months of age ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 E, F, 10A–C). The palm of the cheliped has a large pale brownish patch on the lower portion and the propodi and dactyli of the second and third pereiopods have pale brownish portions in some juveniles with an SL of> 1.7 mm after three months of age ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 A–E).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Coenobitidae

Genus

Coenobita

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