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Species of crab From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Gecarcinus nobilii Perger & Wall, 2014 | |
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.
It behaves almost indistinguishably from its relative G. quadratus.
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