Summary[edit] Description: A Terrestrial Hermit Crab climbs an agave near the coast of southwest Mexico. The species is quite widespread on the coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Date: 19 December 2013, 22:01. Source: Coenobita compressus-- the Pacific Hermit Crab. Author: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada.
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