Gecarcinus nobilii | |
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Male G. nobilii | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Gecarcinidae |
Genus: | Gecarcinus |
Species: | G. nobilii
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Binomial name | |
Gecarcinus nobilii Perger & Wall, 2014
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Gecarcinus nobili, also known as the Red land crab, Ghostly moon crab, or Colombian land crab, is a species of land crab closely related to the halloween moon crab (G. quadratus). It was described in 2014. It is from the Neotropical Pacific coast of northwestern South America.[1]
Range and habitat
[edit]G. nobilii is found along the South American Pacific coast, from Colombia to Peru. It inhabits the mangrove, tropical rainforest and other habitats that lines the coast.
Behavior
[edit]It behaves almost indistinguishably from its relative G. quadratus.
References
[edit]- ^ Perger, Robert; Wall, Adam (2014). "The description of a new species of the Neotropical land crab genus Gecarcinus Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae)". ZooKeys (435): 93–109. doi:10.3897/zookeys.435.7271. PMC 4141188. PMID 25152688.
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