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Halloween Moon Crab
Gecarcinus quadratus
10.3083, -84.8112
Field Notes
Description:
Also known as red land crab, whitespot crab, mouthless crab or harlequin land crab. This colorful, nocturnal land crab digs burrows – sometimes as long as 1.5 metres (4.9 ft)– in the coastal rainforests of Central America, and is common along the coasts of Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua.
Notes:
Spotted these when the park ranger at Manuel Antonio National Park kindly took us around the park at night.We dreamed, of course, of spotting a jaguar, but instead we saw less glamorous, but equally interesting animals.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2013
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