Coenobita clypeatus
The Caribbean hermit crab, also known as the soldier crab, West Atlantic crab, tree crab, or purple pincher, is a species of land hermit crab native to the west Atlantic, Belize, southern Florida, Venezuela, and the West Indies.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoenobitaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Paguroidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coenobita clypeatus on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Coenobita clypeatus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Coenobita clypeatus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Alsophis1 site
- Ameiva griswoldi1 site
- Anolis bimaculatus leachi1 site
- Athene cunicularia1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Brachyphylla cavernarum1 site
- Calidris1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Cinclocerthia ruficauda1 site
- Columbina passerina1 site
- Eleutherodactylus1 site
- Gecarcinus lateralis1 site
- Hapalocrex flaviventer1 site
- Leiocephalus1 site
- Loxigilla noctis1 site
- Margarops fuscatus1 site
- Molossus molossus1 site
- Mormoops blainvillei1 site
- Natalus1 site
- Orthorhyncus cristatus1 site
- Oryzomyini1 site
- Phyllonycteris major1 site
- Pteronotus parnellii1 site
- Puffinus lherminieri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coenobita clypeatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Coenobita clypeatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- ZooFari
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coenobita clypeatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCoenobita through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fabricius 1787