Species Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancer latro Linnaeus, C. 1767. Classis V. Insecta. Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae. Vol. 1(2). 533-1327 pp. [1049].
• Cancer puru Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [169].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56 [45 (Table 1), 47]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific Oceans

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Frugivorous, scavenger, supratidal, terrestrial.

 

General References

Brown, I.W. & Fielder, D.W. (eds) 1991. The Coconut Crab: aspects of Birgus latro biology and ecology in Vanuatu. Canberra : Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Monograph No. 8 ix 128 pp.

Haig, J. & Ball, E.E. 1988. Hermit crabs from north Australian and eastern Indonesian waters (Crustacea Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) collected during the 1975 Alpha Helix Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum 40(3): 151-196 [156]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Mar-2025	CRUSTACEA Brünnich, 1772	14-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Gary Poore
24-Apr-2012		24-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)