Halloween Moon Crab (Retiring Soon)

Halloween Moon Crab Facts

Halloween Moon Crab may reach a length of 5 centimetres (2.0 in). It has a pair of largely purple claws, red-orange legs, and an almost entirely black carapace with a pair of yellow, orange or reddish spots behind the eyes, and an additional pair of whitish spots on the central-lower carapace.

This nocturnal crab digs burrows – sometimes as long as 4.9 ft – in the coastal rainforests of Central America, and is common along the coasts of Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua. It lives in the forest at least some of its adult life, but needs to return to the ocean to breed. It is largely herbivorous, and consumes leaf litter and seedlings. Learn more HERE.