Gecarcinus nobili, also known as the Red land crab, Ghostly moon crab, or Colombian land crab, is a species of land crab closely related to the halloween moon crab (G. quadratus).

It is from the Neotropical Pacific coast of northwestern South America.

[1] G. nobilii is found along the South American Pacific coast, from Colombia to Peru.

It inhabits the mangrove, tropical rainforest and other habitats that lines the coast.

[citation needed] It behaves almost indistinguishably from its relative G.