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Blue crab escaping from the net along the Core Banks of North Carolina.. Callinectes sapidus (from the Ancient Greek κάλλος,"beautiful" + nectes, "swimmer", and Latin sapidus, "savory"), the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or, regionally, the Maryland blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and introduced internationally.
Portunus pelagicus, also known as the blue crab, blue swimmer crab, blue manna crab and flower crab is a species of large crab found in the Indo-Pacific, including off the coasts Indonesia, [1] Malaysia, [2] Cambodia, [3] Thailand, [4] the Philippines, [5] and Vietnam; [6] and in the intertidal estuaries around most of Australia and east to New Caledonia.
Cardisoma guanhumi – blue land crab of the West Atlantic; Discoplax celeste – blue land crab of Christmas Island; Paralithodes platypus – blue king crab of the North Pacific; Portunus pelagicus – blue swimmer crab of Australia and Southwest Pacific; Portunus segnis - a Western Indian Ocean species, was recently recorded in Tunisian ...
The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus was chosen as the state crustacean of Maryland in 1989. [17] C. sapidus is a crab found in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific coast of Central America and the Gulf of Mexico. The blue crab may grow to a carapace width of 230 mm (9.1 in).
Callinectes is a genus of crabs, containing 16 extant species, including the Atlantic blue crab, C. sapidus: [2] Extant species. Image Scientific name Common name
Lee ‘Lucky’ Alewine sorts blue crabs on Sept. 20, 2024, throwing back small ones or females carrying eggs and keeping crabs that are at least five inches from across the shell, point to point.
Portunus armatus is a species of crustacean, a swimming crab in the family Portunidae found in Australia and eastwards to New Caledonia. [1] Common names include blue swimmer crabs, Blue manna, Blueys, [2] and Jennies (for females). [3]
Callinectes similis, sometimes called the lesser blue crab [1] or dwarf crab, [2] is a West Atlantic species of blue crab. It was described by Austin B. Williams in 1966. Description