Atlantic ghost crab

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.

• Atlantic ghost crab at World Register of Marine Species