Coenobita clypeatus mating video and egg fertilization photos
2018-07-26
(Click the link to view the video and photos) Stacy’s hermit crabs are mating again!Read More →
Hermit Crab Sex Organs: Gonopores and Sex Tubes of the Coenobita species
2015-05-31
I am unsure about the set of spots on the legs after the gonopores. Hermit crabs can change gender during a molt so perhaps that is the location of where the male sex tubes would develop after a gender change? Just a theory…. Coenobita rugosus has been found to be intersexual We are building image galleries of specific body parts. If you have high resolution, clear photos that you would like to donate to this project please upload your photos to Dropbox here: https://www.dropbox.com/request/ajUgzmoG7co86iH2X0fh Overview of the anatomy of a land hermit crab (Coenobita) References:Read More →
Hermit Crab Carrying Eggs (gravid) – Coenobita species
2015-03-15
grav·id: ˈɡravid/ adjective 1. pregnant; carrying eggs or young. Land hermit crabs carry their brood inside of the shell until they are ready to be released into the ocean. We are building image galleries of specific body parts. If you have high resolution, clear photos that you would like to donate to this project please upload your photos to Dropbox here: https://www.dropbox.com/request/ajUgzmoG7co86iH2X0fh Overview of the anatomy of a land hermit crab (Coenobita)Read More →
What is the life-cycle of a land Hermit Crab?
2013-02-21
written by Vanessa Pike- Russell 2000, updated by Stacy Griffith The life cycle of the land hermit crab is unique. It starts by the release of eggs into an ocean tide pool, where the zoea go through a series of moults and developmental stages. A baby hermit crab zoea will be a part of plankton until it grows and starts to resemble hermit crab form. Once they have developed to maturity, hermit crabs leave their watery home, making the long journey to land to find a shell for the protection of the soft abdomen. Once ashore, land hermit crabs go through a metamorphosis, developing modifiedRead More →
Hermit Crab Breeding and Reproduction Guide
2012-09-25
Originally written by Vanessa Pike-Russell, edited and updated by Stacy Griffith Thu, Oct. 12th, 2006, 10:40 pm Keeping and breeding land hermit crabs Foreword: Hello. My name is Vanessa Pike-Russell. Stu Wools-Cobb visited my website on land hermit crab care and emailed me after reading my caresheet on gender and reproduction. At the time it had been unheard of for land hermit crabs to have successfully reproduced in captivity and the resulting eggs raised to juvenile (air-breathing) stage of development. A few emails, phone calls later, and Stu sent me a copy of his booklet that was created in part for his local aquarist society.Read More →
