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IMAGE INFORMATION

The Land-Crab of Jamaica

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 29, 1790

Primary Source Reference:

Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia), 29 June 1790

Additional Source Text:

Also listed in Herald of Freedom (Boston), 13 July 1790

Notes:

The blue land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) is a species of land crab found in tropical and subtopical estuaries and other maritime areas of land along the Atlantic coast and through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, from Brazil to Bermuda.

 

Peale's Common Name:

Land-crab

Current Common Name:

Blue land crab

Current Scientific Name

Cardisoma guanhumi