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Atlantic Ghost Crab
Judy Gallagher, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Crabs

Atlantic Ghost Crab

Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787)

Names

EnglishAtlantic Ghost Crab
Dutch—
SpanishCangrejo fantasma del Atlántico
Chinese方身沙蟹
Sranan Tongokrabu (general name for the group)
Scientific nameOcypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787)

About this species

The Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) is a species of ghost crab. It is a common species along the Atlantic coast of the United States, where it is the only species of ghost crab; its range of distribution extends from its northernmost reach on beaches in Nova Scotia, Canada and Massachusetts to south along the coasts of the tropical Western Atlantic Ocean to the beach of Barra do Chui, in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassMalacostraca
OrderDecapoda
FamilyOcypodidae
GenusOcypode

In Suriname

17Records in Suriname
10iNaturalist observations
1940First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Commewijne3
  • Marowijne1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

Sources & credits

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