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Cardisoma crassum
These land crabs emerge from their holes at dusk - so the light was rather poor.
Spotted on Jan 17, 2010
Submitted on May 13, 2012
5 Comments
You are 100% correct! Congrats! Sorry about the confusion. I deleted the suggestion.
I was confused because I saw photos that looked like my crab identified as Gecarcinus quadratus, the Halloween crab. But I now think those are simply misidentified (What! You mean everything you read on the internet isn't necessarily true?). So I did some more digging and learned a few things...Gecarcinus lateralis is the Caribbean equivalent of the Halloween crab - that is, G. quadratus lives on the Pacific coast, and G. lateralis on the Caribbean side. It seems my crab isn't Gecarcinus at all. I believe it is Cardisoma crassum. It also is restricted to the Pacific coast. There is another Cardisoma sp. that takes it's place on the Caribbean coast .
....until next January entonces!
:-) I live near Barva. I spend a couple of weeks in Junquillal every Jan. - the whole family heads for the beach while the kids are off school.
I live in Playa Negra...Are you in Junquillal right now...let's go shoot photos!