This watercolor is from Catesby (1743). He labeled it Cancer arenareus, the “Sand Crab.” It is not a fiddler crab, but is rather the closely related ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata. Early taxonomists (e.g., Linnaeus) tended to place this figure with the fiddler crabs. Even though not a fiddler, I include the image on the site largely because it is such a beautiful early painting.
