Editing Coenobitidae

{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}}
{{Automatic Taxobox
| image = Bernard l'hermite.JPG
| image_caption = ''[[Coenobita perlatus]]''
| image2 = Coconut Crab Birgus latro.jpg
| image2_caption = [[Coconut crab]], ''Birgus latro''
| taxon = Coenobitidae
| authority = [[James Dwight Dana|Dana]], 1851
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = 
*''[[Coconut crab|Birgus]]''
*''[[Coenobita]]''
}}
The '''Coenobitidae''' are the family of [[Terrestrial animal|terrestrial]] [[hermit crab]]s, 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:<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Patsy A. McLaughlin |author2=Tomoyuki Komai |author3=Rafael Lemaitre |author4=Dwi Listyo Rahayu |year=2010 |editor1=Martyn E. Y. Low |editor2=S. H. Tan |title=Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea, Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |volume=Suppl. 23 |pages=5–107 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz005-107.pdf |access-date=2011-06-08 |archive-date=2012-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122104557/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz005-107.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Image !! Genus  !! Living species
|-
|[[File:Bernardl'hermitedenis.JPG|120px]] || ''[[Coenobita]]'' {{small|Latreille, 1829}}  ||
{{Linked species list
 | Coenobita brevimanus | Dana, 1852
 | Coenobita carnescens | Dana, 1851
 | Coenobita cavipes | Stimpson, 1858
 | Coenobita clypeatus | (Fabricius, 1787)
 | Coenobita compressus | H. Milne-Edwards, 1836
 | Coenobita longitarsis | De Man, 1902
 | Coenobita olivieri | Owen, 1839
 | Coenobita perlatus | H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
 | Coenobita pseudorugosus | Nakasone, 1988
 | Coenobita purpureus | Stimpson, 1858
 | Coenobita rubescens | Greeff, 1884
 | Coenobita rugosus | H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
 | Coenobita scaevola | (Forskål, 1775)
 | Coenobita spinosus | H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
 | Coenobita variabilis | McCulloch, 1909
 | Coenobita violascens | Heller, 1862
 | Coenobita lila | Rahayu, Shih & Ng, 2016
}}
|-
|[[File:Coconut Crab on Chagos Archipelago.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Birgus]]'' {{small|Leach, 1816}}  || 
{{Linked species list
 | Birgus latro | (Linnaeus, 1767) – [[coconut crab]]
}}
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}
* Hamasaki, K., Iizuka, C., Sanda, T., Imai, H. and Kitada, S. (2017), ''Phylogeny and phylogeography of the land hermit crab Coenobita purpureus (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae) in the Northwestern Pacific Region.'' Mar Ecol, 38: e12369. {{doi|10.1111/maec.12369}}

==External links==
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*{{cite WoRMS |id=196140 |title=Coenobitidae |author=Patsy McLaughlin |year=2011 |db=Paguroidea}}

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[[Category:Hermit crabs]]
[[Category:Terrestrial crustaceans]]
[[Category:Decapod families]]

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