The next smallest will take that crab’s hand-me-down home, and so on. Hermit crabs vary in their mating habits. The Caribbean hermit crab, for example, lives in wetlands, but when it’s time to ...

the largest being the coconut crab, who has a leg span of more than three feet. Most of the hermit crabs sold as pets in the US are purple pincher crabs or Ecuadorian hermit crabs. Purple pinchers are ...

Featured on the Pinanski radiation research lab’s containment shell, this mural of a Caribbean hermit crab, or cobito, was painted by internationally renowned Puerto Rican muralist, “Bikismo” (Joshua ...