Gecarcinus nobilii

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
Male G. nobilii
Scientific classification
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

Range and habitat

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.^{[citation needed]}

Behavior

It behaves almost indistinguishably from its relative G. quadratus.^{[citation needed]}