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title: "Purple Hermit Crab"
description: "Coenobita brevimanus — Altri animali. Coenobita brevimanus is a species of terrestrial hermit crab belonging to the family Coenobitidae, which is composed of coastal-living terrestrial hermit crabs."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/purple-hermit-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Purple Hermit Crab

> Coenobita brevimanus — Altri animali. Coenobita brevimanus is a species of terrestrial hermit crab belonging to the family Coenobitidae, which is composed of coastal-living terrestrial hermit crabs.

- Scientific name: *Coenobita brevimanus*
- Category: `other` (Altri animali)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1934
- Wikidata: [Q2451873](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2451873)
- iNaturalist taxon: [123359](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/123359)

## Names

- en: Purple Hermit Crab
- de: Kurzscheren-Landeinsiedlerkrebs
- fr: Cénobite forestier

## Countries with the most observations

TW (456), ID (146), GU (137), PH (109), JP (94), TZ (75), VU (61), MY (58), IN (51), MP (48), MM (47), SC (47)

## Summary

Coenobita brevimanus is a species of terrestrial hermit crab belonging to the family Coenobitidae, which is composed of coastal-living terrestrial hermit crabs. The Latin origins of the species name, brevimanus, come from the adjective brevis ("small") and the noun manus ("hands"). It is known as the Indos crab or Indonesian crab because it is primarily distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenobita_brevimanus

## Photo

![Purple Hermit Crab](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/purple-hermit-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sofie Meeus · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164157704

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/purple-hermit-crab?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).