2. According to < new species of land hermit crab in the genus Coenobita Latreille, 1829 from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, previously confused with C. cavipes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae) >, Coenobita lila differs from Coenobita violascens in the absence of prominent longitudinal ridge separated the dorsal and lateral surfce of propodus of 3rd walking legs and in the slightly elongated, subtriangular shape of the male sexual tube.
The other different is to see the joint (red circle) between propodus and dactylus of 3rd walking leg.
- Coenobita lila – with a concave ‘reverse L’
- Coenobita violascens – WITHOUT a concave ‘reverse L’.