#4554 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Tawny Hermit Crab
Coenobita rugosus
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Coenobita rugosus is a species of land hermit crab native to Indonesia, Australia and the east African coast to the south west Pacific.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,998 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Henri Milne-Edwards in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tawny Hermit Crab
- scientific name
- Coenobita rugosus
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Coenobitidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,998
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by Henri Milne-Edwards
relatives· Coenobitidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 123362, Wikidata Q2261943, GBIF 5716743, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.