Atlantic ghost crab

plural Atlantic ghost crabs

1. Burrowing crab of the species Ocypode quadrata

   The Atlantic ghost crab is one of the many resident animals likely to greet the Cape Lookout National Seashore beachcomber.

   1994, Defenders, volume 69, Washington, DC: Defenders of Wildlife, page 38, column 2

   2 more examples

   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.

   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

   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.

   2018 September 29, Martin Rowland, Geremis Luces, “The Atlantic ghost crab”, in Biological Sciences Review, volume 31, number 1, Banbury: Hodder Education, page 7