Invertebrates

Seychelles Centipede

The Seychelles giant centipede (Milpat in Creole) is a very large centipede found throughout the tropics. It’s found on the…

Stick and Leaf Insects

Stick insects (Seval-d-bwa) as the name suggests are elongate, green or brown twig-like herbivores. Their resemblance to the sticks on…

Spiders

Spiders in Seychelles include some large web-building species and the free-roaming rather tarantula-like huntsman spiders. The palm spider is the…

Ghost Crabs

Seychelles has an incredible 32 species of land, shore, brackish water and freshwater crabs. These do not include all the…

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Hermit Crabs

There are two types of hermit crabs – land and marine and about 500 different species of hermit crabs around…