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Red Land Crab

Hartnollius quadratus

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Costa Rica.January 62, February 95, March 144, April 107, May 126, June 161, July 145, August 57, September 28, October 18, November 37, December 58.
Costa Rica1,038
Provincia Puntarenas644
Mexico406
Provincia Guanacaste386
Panama136
Jalisco110
Nayarit103
Oaxaca91
Provincia de Veraguas46
Guerrero34

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
GenusHartnollius

Sources

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