Coenobita Gonopore

Gonpores are the openings of reproductive system to exterior. In male, pore on basal segment (coxa) of last (eighth) thoracopods; in female, pore on coxa of sixth thoracopods (third pereopods) [1]

Coenobita rugosus has been found to be intersexual

Coenobita compressus male

Coenobita perlatus female

Coenobita clypeatus male

C. clypeatus male – Photo Credit Mary Milhorn

Male Hermit Crab -MelissaNesgoda

Cavipes gonopores

Coenobita gonopores – Photo Credit Amber Miner

C. clypeatus female – Photo Credit Mary Milhorn

C. clypeatus male – Photo Credit Mary Milhorn

Coenobita female – Photo credit – Mary Milhorn

Coenobita male – Photo credit – Mary Milhorn

Coenobita male – Photo credit – Mary Milhorn

Coenobita male

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Overview of the anatomy of a land hermit crab (Coenobita)

References:
1 Stachowitsch, 1992