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Land crab

Cardisoma guanhumi

Photo by JVM
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Puerto Rican sand crab

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Noemi
This is not a sand crab. Is the land crab, Cardisoma guanhumi. Please correct this misidentification. Emerita portoricensis is the sand crab, which in spanish is called "cucarachita de mar"

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PublishedMay 9, 2013

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