Ontogenetic change of body color patterns in laboratory-raised juveniles of six terrestrial hermit crab species

FIGURE 3. Birgus latro. A (whole animal, dorsal view), B (animal showing shield and posterior carapace, left lateral view), Y 1 (sample no. in Table 1, 0.96 mm SL, 0 months old); C (whole animal, dorsal view), D (animal showing shield, left lateral view), Y 5 (1.14 mm SL, 1 month old); E (animal showing shield, posterior carapace, and some appendages, dorsal view), F (animal showing shield, left lateral view), Y 8 (1.59 mm SL, 2 months old); G (animal showing shield, posterior carapace, and some appendages, dorsal view), Y 12 (1.77 mm SL, 3 months old).

FIGURE 4. Birgus latro. A (animal showing shield, posterior carapace, and some appendages, dorsal view), B (animal showing shield, left lateral view), Y 15 (sample no. in Table 1, 1.72 mm SL, 4 months old); C (animal showing shield, posterior carapace, and left appendages, dorsal view), Y 30 (2.21 mm SL, 9 months old); D (animal showing shield, posterior carapace, and some appendages, dorsal view), Y 33 (2.72 mm SL, 12 months old); E (live crab without a gastropod shell, dorsal view) (approximately 4.0 mm SL, 24 months old).