Coenobita brevimanus
Purple Hermit Crab
As recorded: Coenobita brevimanus Dana, 1852
Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Coenobitidae
- Collected by
- Ball and EdmondsonBall →Charles Howard Edmondson →
- Locality
- Fanning Island
- Island
- Fanning Island
- Region
- Unknown Region
- Record type
- Preserved specimen
Coenobita brevimanus observed alive
Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 1,398 research-grade sightings in the wild, most recently on 2026-10-25.
2026-10-25
Two Lovers St, Tamuning, Guam, US
(c) DJ, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-10-20
Phangnga, TH
(c) Ruslan Saifutdinov, some rights reserved (CC BY)
2026-10-17
Bel-is
(c) Paolo Co, some rights reserved (CC BY)
2026-10-15
東方之泉股份有限公司綠島營業處, 綠島鄉, 臺東縣, TW
(c) zonghan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-10-13
XWPX+R69, Andaman and Nicobar Islands 744211, India
(c) Swadha Pardesi, some rights reserved (CC BY)
2026-10-13
952台灣臺東縣蘭嶼鄉椰油村84之1號號
(c) Yung-Lun Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY)
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Cite this specimen
Coenobita brevimanus. BPBM 815. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 36095217. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/s/815.
Record sources
- GBIF occurrence 36095217 ↗
- Data license: CC0
- Last harvested October 26, 2026