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mouthless crab

Cardisoma crassum

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Costa Rica.January 100, February 82, March 79, April 69, May 100, June 153, July 153, August 99, September 60, October 29, November 84, December 91.
Costa Rica1,099
Provincia Puntarenas930
Mexico351
Provincia Guanacaste152
Sinaloa88
Oaxaca78
Panama62
Nayarit59
Jalisco51
Ecuador26

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMalacostracans · Malacostraca
OrderDecapods · Decapoda
FamilyLand Crabs · Gecarcinidae
GenusCardisoma

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