Larval growth, development and duration in terrestrial hermit crabs

Phylogeny and phylogeography of the land hermit crab Coenobita purpureus (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae) in the Northwestern Pacific Region

“…; Nakasone ), and their larvae develop through planktonic zoeal stages to a megalopa (Hamasaki et al . ), similar to marine hermit crabs. After settlement, like marine hermit crabs (Reese ; Hazlett & Provenzano ), terrestrial coenobitid crab megalopae recognize and co‐opt gastropod shells before migrating onto land (Reese ; Harvey ; Brodie ; Hamasaki et al .…”

“…; Hamasaki et al . ): (i) widely distributed species: Coenobita brevimanus , Coenobita cavipes , Co. perlatus , Coenobita pseudorugosus , Coenobita rugosus , Co. spinosus , Coenobita violascens and B. latro in the Indo‐West Pacific; and (ii) species with a relatively narrower distribution: Coenobita clypeatus in the Western Atlantic, Coenobita compressus on the west coast of America, Coenobita purpureus in the Northwestern Pacific region, Coenobita rubescens in West Africa, Coenobita scaevola in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somalia and Pakistan and Coenobita variabilis in Northern Australia.…”

Thermal adaptations of embryos of six terrestrial hermit crab species

“…Coenobitid females re turn to the sea to hatch the embryos (Hartnoll 1988, Schiller et al 1991, Nakasone 2001. Newly hatched larvae develop through planktonic zoeal stages to megalopae in the sea (Hamasaki et al 2015b), similar to marine hermit crabs. After settlement, coenobitid megalopae recognize and acquire gastropod shells and then migrate onto land (Reese 1968, Reese & Kinzie 1968, Harvey 1992, Brodie 1999, 2015a.…”

“…Coenobitid crabs mainly occur in subtropical and tropical coastal regions and have been divided into 2 groups based on their geographical occurrence patterns: (1) widely distributed species in the Indo-West Pacific, and (2) relatively narrower distributed species in particular regions, such as the western Atlantic, West Africa, west coast of North America, Northern Australia, and the northwestern Pacific (Hartnoll 1988, Nakasone 1988, Harvey 1992, McLaughlin et al 2007, Wang et al 2007, Hamasaki et al 2015b.…”

Shell occupation by the land hermit crab Coenobita violascens (Anomura, Coenobitidae) from Phuket Island, Thailand

“…Limited information on the life history of C. violascens has been known and recorded. Only some recent studies on C. violascens have been recently reported, including functional morphology related to water uptake (Becchi et al, 2015), emigration behavior and molting during the sea-to-land transition (Hamasaki et al, 2015a), larval development under laboratory conditions (Hamasaki et al, 2015b;Kato et al, 2015), larval release and tree-climbing behavior (Doi et al, 2016) and thermal adaptation of embryos (Hamasaki et al, 2016). The objectives of the present study are to reveal shell occupation and the relationship between the characteristics of occupied shells and crab characteristics of C. violascens at Cape Panwa, Phuket Island, Andaman coast of Thailand.…”