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Coenobitidae

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Coenobitidae

[‚sē·nə′bid·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
A family of terrestrial decapod crustaceans belonging to the Anomura.
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Shell utilization by the land hermit crab Coenobita scaevola (Anomura, Coenobitidae) from Wadi ElGemal, Red Sea.
Sanchez & Campos (1978), registran 16 especies pertenecientes a ocho generos de las familias Paguridae y Coenobitidae. Lemaitre & Campos (1993) describen las especies nuevas Pylopagurus pattiae y Xylopagurus tayrona, y establecen su presencia en otras regiones del Caribe.
Land crabs, including the gecarcinids (Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) and hermits (Anomura, Coenobitidae) are often dominant consumers on tropical islands (Louda and Zedler 1985, Green 1997).
En Anomura se ha detectado en las familias Coenobitidae y Diogenidae (Turra, 2004; Gusev & Zabotin, 2007; Fantucci et al., 2008; Sant'Anna et al., 2010), Galatheidae (Kronenberger et al., 2004) e Hippidae (Subramoniam, 1981).
Observation of intersexuality in land hermit crabs (Anomura: Coenobitidae).
Superfamilia Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 Familia COENOBITIDAE Dana, 1815
Checklist of anomuran species from Cabo-Pulmo-Los Frailes reef and vicinity, collection habitats (in Cabo Pulmo) and zoogeographic composition Registro Habitat Provincias del oriental I II Familia Coenobitidae Coenobita compressus H.
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