coconut crab (Birgus latro)
This is the coconut crab (Birgus latro), a land-dwelling hermit crab that can crack open coconuts with its claws. The largest arthropod on land is found on islands across the Indian and Pacific Oceans and can grow to 1m from leg to leg. Although it starts out as a juvenile wearing other gastropod shells for protection, as an adult it grows its own tough exoskeleton.
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