Red Land Crab

Description:

It has a pair of largely purple claws, reddish-orange legs, and an almost entirely blackish carapace with a pair of yellow, orange or maroon spots behind the eyes, and an additional pair of whitish spots on the central-lower carapace.

Habitat:

mangrove, sand dunes and rainforest along the Pacific coast from Mexico south to Peru..

Notes:

It lives in the forest at least some of its adult life, but needs to return to the ocean to breed. It is largely herbivorous, and consumes leaf litter and seedlings.