Abstract:The present study was conducted to examine the occurrence and distribution of early juvenile land hermit crabs of the genus Coenobita on a small beach on the Boso Peninsula, Japan as a basis for understanding the important habitats that land hermit crabs use during the sea-to-land transition. The survey sites were supratidal zones at six points with heterogeneous topography, and visual surveys for early juveniles were conducted from middle July to late October in 2015 and 2016. The number of empty gastropod sh… Show more
“…Early juveniles of C. purpureus inhabit sandy beach conditions (Hamasaki et al, 2018;Sanda et al, 2018aSanda et al, , 2018bInutsuka et al, 2020) with high ground temperatures (Hamasaki et al, 2018) that may induce overheating and desiccation, thereby leading to hypersaline environments. Megalopae and early juveniles of C. purpureus might have evolved the strong hypo-osmoregulatory ability to adapt to the high-temperature niche.…”
“…Early juveniles of C. purpureus inhabit sandy beach conditions (Hamasaki et al, 2018;Sanda et al, 2018aSanda et al, , 2018bInutsuka et al, 2020) with high ground temperatures (Hamasaki et al, 2018) that may induce overheating and desiccation, thereby leading to hypersaline environments. Megalopae and early juveniles of C. purpureus might have evolved the strong hypo-osmoregulatory ability to adapt to the high-temperature niche.…”
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