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:
“She liked the blue drapes. They made a star
At the angle. A boy in leather moved in.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“That is the land of lost content
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“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)