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Blue Land Crab

Cardisoma guanhumi

Photo by oliver.komar
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Field Notes

Description:

Large blue crab at mouth of a burrow in the forest of Utila. This individual has lost its large white foreclaw.

Habitat:

Broadleaf forest at sea level, adjacent to the beach.

Notes:

This species was amazingly abundant in the forest, with dozens or hundreds per hectare, and as I walked down the trail, I could constantly hear the rustling of these crabs scurrying among the leaf litter.

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Cardisoma guanhumi

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