Australian land hermit crab Australian land hermit crab The Australian land hermit crab ("Coenobita variabilis") is a terrestrial hermit crab species, native to Australia. It is a nocturnal, omnivorous crustacean. They are gregarious and thrive in tropical areas near water. The Australian land hermit crab is endemic to northern parts of Australia including northern Western Australia, Northern Territory and northern Queensland. The Australian land hermit crab ("Coenobita variabilis") reaches a carapace length of . They closely resemble the Pacific hermit crab ("Coenobita compressus") in appearance and they both have a shortened aquatic development stage. Australian hermit crabs are light brown to pale brown in
Brown spider monkey Brown spider monkey The brown spider monkey or variegated spider monkey ("Ateles hybridus") is a critically endangered species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from forests in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. Its taxonomic history has been confusing, and in the past it has been treated as a subspecies of either the Geoffroy's spider monkey or the white-fronted spider monkey. Like all spider monkeys, it has very long, spindly limbs and a lengthy prehensile tail which can almost be called a fifth limb. The brown spider monkey has a whitish belly and patch on the forehead, and