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Birgus latro🦀

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SpeciesDecapodaCoenobitidae
Invertebrates

🦀Coconut crab

Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767)

El cangrejo de los cocoteros (Birgus latro) es una especie de crustáceo decápodo de la familia Coenobitidae, la única de su género; es el artrópodo terrestre conocido más pesado que existe (el cangrejo más grande por longitud es el cangrejo gigante japonés). El cangrejo de los cocoteros es una especie de cangrejo ermitaño, cuya habilidad característica es abrir cocos con sus fuertes pinzas para alimentarse de su contenido.

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Videos
15
Photos
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Measurements
5
vs you
≈ 1/16th of your weight
Also called
Palm Thief, Robber Crab
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
4 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
40 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Coconut crab

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4 kgmaximum recorded
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Carapace width
0.2 mmaximum recorded, carapace width
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Maximum lifespan
40 yearsmaximum recorded
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Danger to humans
poisonous to eat
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Volume l
4 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Coconut crab yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classMalacostraca
  4. ›orderDecapoda
  5. ›familyCoenobitidae
  6. ›genusBirgus
  7. ›speciesBirgus latro
Full lineage
  1. classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
  2. orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
  3. familyCoenobitidae
  4. genusBirgus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
  4. subclassEumalacostraca
  5. superorderEucarida
  6. orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
  7. suborderPleocyemata
  8. infraorderAnomura
  9. familyCoenobitidae
  10. genusBirgus
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In other languages
Cangrejo de los cocoteros (es), crabe de cocotier (fr), 椰子蟹 (zh), Krab palmowy (pl), סרטן הקוקוס (he), 야자집게 (ko) … and 26 more languages
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