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
Hermit (hummingbird) notably SACC, which consider both "T. niger" and "T. leucurus" as valid species. Additionally, Mallet-Rodrigues (2006) suggested the taxon "loehkeni" should be considered a valid species, the bronze-tailed barbthroat. Three additional species, the tooth-billed hummingbird ("Androdon aequatorialis"), the green-fronted lancebill ("Doryfera ludovicae") and the blue-fronted lancebill ("D. johannae"), have been included in this subfamily in the past, but are now placed in "Trochilinae". Hermit (hummingbird) The hermits are tropical and subtropical hummingbirds in the subfamily Phaethornithinae, comprising 30–40 species in six genera. They occur from southern Mexico, through Central America, to South America as far south as northern Argentina. Their