The common name blue land crab can be applied to either of two terrestrial crab species:
- Discoplax hirtipes, from the Indo-Pacific
- Cardisoma guanhumi, from the Atlantic coast of the Americas, also known as the giant blue land crab.
Famous quotes containing the words blue, land and/or crab:
“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,—roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control
Stops with the shore;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
““I am of Ireland,
And the Holy Land of Ireland,
And time runs on,” cried she.
“Come out of charity
And dance with me in Ireland.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I love no roast but a nut-brown toast, and a crab laid in the fire;
A little bread shall do me stead! much bread I do not desire;”
—William Stevenson (1530?–1575)