Assertion: caribbean hermit crab | /r/HasProperty | coenobita clypeatus
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text: The Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus), also known as the soldier crab, West Atlantic crab, tree crab, or purple pincher (due to the distinctive purple claw), is a species of land hermit crab native to the west Atlantic, Bahamas, Belize, southern Florida, Venezuela, the Virgin Islands, and the West Indies.
text: These land Hermit crabs are commonly kept as pets: Caribbean Hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus), Australian land Hermit crab (Coenobita variabilis), Ecuadorian Hermit crab (Coenobita compressus), Coenobita brevimanus, Coenobita rugosus, Strawberry Hermit crab (Coenobita perlatus), and the Passionfruit Hermit (Coenobita cavipes).
text: So now we tell you that the Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus), which may also be called a soldier crab has a left claw that is larger than the right, as with the Caribbean hermit crab shown here climbing up the side of a tree and can be used to block predators at the entrance to the shell.
text: In a new paper in press in the journal Behavioural Processes, Noelle M. Watanabe and colleagues from the UCLA Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Psychology explore these questions using an unlikely animal model: the Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus).
text: Pets in USA: The terrestrial species most commonly kept as pets in the United States are the Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus,) and the Pacific hermit crab (Coenobita compressus).