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:
“Down the blue night the unending columns press
In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“The seashore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-traveled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)