Atlantic ghost crab

English

Atlantic ghost crab

Noun

Atlantic ghost crab (plural Atlantic ghost crabs)

1. Burrowing crab of the species Ocypode quadrata
   • 1946, Lorus J. Milne, Margery J. Milne, “Notes on the Behavior of the Ghost Crab”, in The American Naturalist, volume 80, number 792, Salem, USA: Essex Institute, →DOI, page 363:

     The genus Ocypode was erected by Fabricius (1798) for two of his own species (1793), our Atlantic ghost crab and the racing crab of the coasts of India and Malaya.

   • 1994, Defenders, volume 69, Washington, DC: Defenders of Wildlife, page 38, column 2:

     The Atlantic ghost crab is one of the many resident animals likely to greet the Cape Lookout National Seashore beachcomber.

   • 2018 September, Martin Rowland, Geremis Luces, “The Atlantic ghost crab”, in Biological Sciences Review, volume 31, number 1, Banbury: Hodder Education, page 7:

     But although the Atlantic ghost crab shown in this picture is near the sea, the adult animals are terrestrial, living in burrows that they dig in the sand.

Translations

Ocypode quadrata

• Old Tupi: agûarausá
• Portuguese: guaruçá m (Brazil), maria-farinha f (Brazil)

Further reading

• Atlantic ghost crab at World Register of Marine Species