Identity
Family / Order
Cardisomatidae / Decapoda
Authority
(Herbst, 1796)
Origin
Indo-Pacific: East Africa (Somalia to South Africa), Madagascar, the Seychelles and the western Pacific as far as French Polynesia
Habit
Land crab. Adults live in burrows above the tide line and return to the sea to release larvae
Enclosure and conditions
Enclosure and conditions
Not stated on this sheet. Nothing has been read for the temperature, the humidity or the enclosure of this species, so nothing is written. A land crab kept on a marine crab's numbers dies of it, and a guess here would read exactly like a fact.
When to see a vet
Not veterinary advice. Anything about a sick animal goes to a qualified exotic vet.
Others in this group
Caribbean / Purple Pincher Hermit CrabCoenobita clypeatusGiant African Land SnailLissachatina fulicaRed Apple CrabMetasesarma aubryiIndonesian / Purple Land Hermit CrabCoenobita brevimanusRuggie Land Hermit CrabCoenobita rugosusVampire Crab (assorted Geosesarma)Geosesarma sp. (e.g. dennerle, 'red devil')Giant Pink-foot / Immaculate Land SnailAchatina immaculataGiant West African / Banana Rasp SnailArchachatina marginata
Sources
What this sheet states
23%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB
This sheet states 2 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: thermal rail and temperature audit, humidity instrument and audit, enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.
UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 348 of 395 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.