Coconuts are starting to hit the market in the summer, and coconut crabs are starting to come out to eat the coconut pulp. So is the coconut crab a hermit crab? Where can you buy coconut crabs China? Come along and find out!

A, coconut crab is a hermit crab

Coconut crab (scientific name: Birgus

latro) is a kind of hermit crab, can grow up to 1 meter long, is not only the largest terrestrial crabs, but also the largest terrestrial arthropods. Large, weighing up to 6 kilograms, the coconut crab's shell is hard, with two strong and powerful giant chelae, is a master of climbing trees, especially good at climbing straight coconut trees, because they can use their strong double chelae to peel off the hard shell of coconuts, in order to eat the flesh of coconuts therein and so named.

Coconut crabs live in tropical forests near the sea and return to the sea during the breeding season, where their larvae enlarge and grow. Coconut crabs inhabit areas throughout the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.

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Two, coconut crab where to buy in China

Dalian, Qingdao, Hainan Province, these places can buy live coconut crabs.

Coconut crab is 1 type of hermit crab. It is large in size. It can weigh up to six kilograms. It is good at climbing trees. Due to the big catching by people. It has become extremely strange by now. The market price has also become expensive. They use their strong cheeks to peel off the hard coconut shell. About eating the flesh of the coconut fruit in it and got its name.

Adult coconut crabs can weigh up to 6 kilograms. The carapace and appendicular carapace are calcified and thick, and the surface of the cephalothoracic armor and steppe is corrugated and wrinkled. The gill area of the cephalothoracic armor is particularly enlarged. The frontal horns are triangular and the eye scales are small. The left cheliped is larger than the right cheliped. Abdominal dorsal and lateral armor are calcified and partially curved under the cephalothorax.

Only one side retains a reduced ventral limb. The chelicerae for feeding are large and small, and the rest of the body is symmetrical on both sides, making it a hermit crab. Because they don't need to live inside the snail shells that bind their bodies, adult crabs are very large in appearance and have been recorded as weighing more than seven kilograms and being nearly half a meter long, making them the largest arthropods on land.

Three, economic value

Coconut crab meat flavorful, abdominal fat, nutritious, especially its eight feet, taste like lobster's tail, coupled with a unique coconut flavor. In the method of eating whether steamed, stewed and boiled soup and other flavors are very fresh and delicious; and crab paste steamed eggs taste excellent; if the angelica, dates, round meat with stew, more is regarded as a good tonic. The area of southern Taiwan, China, coconut crab is also regarded as nourishing natural game, such as the belly of the paste yellow into the rice wine consumption, more is considered to be a strong essence of the product, so coconut crab in addition to biologists as a research object, but also become a valuable seafood delicacies favored by the people, and is very valuable to develop.