FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes Western

Gecarcinidae 1151
Cardisoma hirtipes Dana, 1852
En - Blue land crab.
Maximum carapace width 12 cm. On more sandy areas behind beaches, usually near the sea.
Occasionally collected for food by hand or traps, when common. Widely distributed in the Indo-West
Pacific.
Cardisoma longipes (A. Milne Edwards, 1873)
En - Longlegged land crab.
Maximum carapace width 6 cm. On small isolated islands, in caves or holes. Rarely collected for
food, due to its small size and general scarcity. Guam, New Caledonia, Niue, Cook Islands, Tuamotu,
Ocean Island, and Kandavu.
(from A. Milne Edwards, 1873)
Cardisoma rotundum (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824)
En -Rugoselandcrab.
Maximum carapace width 7.5 cm. On more sandy areas adjacent to reefs. A relatively small, not
common species, rarely collected for food. Occurs mainly in islands of the South Seas, reaching to
southern Taiwan Province of China and southern Japan, and the eastern Indian Ocean.