Coenobitidae {family} - Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda;

The Coenobitidae are the family of terrestrial hermit crabs, widely known for their land-living habits as adults. They are found in coastal tropical regions around the world and require access to the ocean to breed. Although coenobitids are fully terrestrial as adults, they spend their marine life as planktonic larvae. Female coenobitids return to the sea to hatch their eggs and their larvae develop through planktonic zoeal stages to a megalopa, in a similar way as the marine hermit crabs. Just like these species, after settlement, terrestrial hermit crabs megalopae recognize and co-opt gastropods shells, before migrating into the land and molting to the first crab stage. The 17 species are placed in two genera: full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	559	Public Records:	477
Specimens with Sequences:	534	Public Species:	11
Specimens with Barcodes:	360	Public BINs:	14
Species:	12
Species With Barcodes:	12
Species List - Progress		Access Published & Released Data

Specimen Depositories:	Sequencing Labs:

Collected from 4 countries. Top 20: Show All Countries

South Africa 2 Thailand 1 Bahamas 1 India 1