Painted ghost crab

Ocypode gaudichaudii

''Ocypode gaudichaudii'', also known as the painted ghost crab or cart driver crab, is a species of crab found on Pacific beaches from El Salvador to Chile as well as on the Galápagos Islands.
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Appearance

They are red-orange in colour with sandy dots across the back of the carapace.
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Food

The crabs deposit feed on vegetative matter, such as algae exposed by low tide, and dead plant and animal tissue both from ocean and terrestrial sources.

Predators

In Peru, this crab is the host of the Acanthocephalan parasite ''Neoandracantha peruensis''.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassMalacostraca
OrderDecapoda
FamilyOcypodidae
GenusOcypode
SpeciesO. gaudichaudii
Photographed in
Costa Rica