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Purple Hermit Crab
Coenobita brevimanus
Coenobita brevimanus is a species of land hermit crab native to Indonesia called indos crab, the east coast of Africa and the south west Pacific Ocean. Adults of this species can be larger than any other species from the genus Coenobita, weighing up to 0.5 pounds (230 g).
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Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123359.