Distribution & Ecology: Tuamotu (Ahe and/or Manihi, Aratika, Kauehi, Pukapuka, Raraka) - Terrestrial.

Regional Records: Cenobita carnescens Dana, 1851: 272 (Paumotu); 1852b: 472; 1855, pl. 30, fig. 3a-b ("Carlshoff" = Aratika, "Honden" = Pukapuka, Raraka, "Vincennes" = Kauehi, "Waterland" = Ahe and/or Manihi). - Poupin, 1994a: 9, fig. 5 (Text); 1996a: 12 (Checklist). - Remark: In Nakasone (1988: 165) this species would be valid, although it was considered doubtful by Bouvier (in Alcock, 1905: 193). According to the drawings provided by Dana, Coenobita carnescens could be in fact the juvenile form of C. perlatus (cf. Poupin, 1994a: 12, pl. 1d-f).