#4546 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Blue Land Crab

Cardisoma guanhumi

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe

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8. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cardisoma guanhumi , also known as the blue land crab , is a species of land crab found in tropical and subtopical estuaries and other maritime areas of land along the Atlantic coast of the Americas from Brazil and Colombia, through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, to the Bahamas, and north to Vero Beach, Florida. 3 in) in width...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,757iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
9,757 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1828 (198 years ago).

fact sheet

English: Blue Land Crab
scientific name: Cardisoma guanhumi
class: Malacostraca
order: Decapoda
family: Cardisomatidae
sightings in NL: 0
sightings worldwide: 9,757
GBIF records in NL: 0
weight: —
length: —
lifespan: —
named: 1828 by Pierre André Latreille

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 54952, Wikidata Q2938105, GBIF 2225832, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.