Christmas Island Robber Crab Edible

Yes the entire crab is edible.

Christmas island robber crab edible. A christmas island robber crab has has allegedly stolen and destroyed a thermal imaging camera set up by a researcher studying one of the island s other native residents. Christmas island tourism on their facebook page said that dozens of robber crabs invaded the family s bbq dinner who were camping at the island over the weekend. They are found in most parts of the island usually sheltering during the day and venturing out at night or on overcast days. The females have a soft shell.

The robber crab put simply is the top of the food chain on christmas island. Christmas island robber crabs and hermit crabs. An australian family got the shock of their lives when dozens of giant crabs invaded their dinner during a camping trip in australia s christmas island. Although restricted to a relatively small area an estimated 43 7 million adult red crabs once lived on christmas island alone but the accidental introduction of the yellow crazy ant is believed to have killed about 10 15 million.

Collected via e mail august 2007 take a look at this photo of the christmas island robber crab another name for coconut crab. Robber crab climbing a palm tree. It can grow to up to 1 m 3 ft 3 in in length from each tip to tip of the leg. Local gov t of christmas island discourages killing eating of them but they are perfectly good and safe source of food.

Like all of our land crabs the robber crabs still use the ocean as part of their breeding cycle the babies emerging quietly from the sea and using a shell for their first few months on land. It was taken at the detention centre construction site. On land the anomura are represented principally by the coenobitidae which include 16 species of shell carrying terrestrial hermit crabs coenobita and the robber or coconut crab birgus latro the largest terrestrial arthropod an abdomen which is clearly visible and distinct from the cephalothorax is a morphological feature of anomuran crabs. 0 0 1.

Christmas island has the world s largest and best protected population of these gentle giants which can live to be more than 50 years old.