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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.
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.
western Atlantic Ocean, as well the Caribbean coastlines. Callinectes pallidus (Rochebrune, 1883) Mauritania to Angola. Callinectes rathbunae Contreras, 1930: warm coastal waters of Mexico. Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896: Chesapeake blue crab: western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico Callinectes similis Williams, 1966: lesser blue crab ...
Petrolisthes elongatus, known as the New Zealand half crab, [2] elongated porcelain crab, blue half crab, blue false crab or simply as the half crab or false crab, [3] is a species of porcelain crab native to New Zealand.
Blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) - Also known as the blue claw crab. The crabs are typically found in the mouth of the Hudson River and occasionally wander into the brackish waters of small rivers and coves that pepper the western side of Long Island, including the waters just off Coney Island. Up the Hudson they are found occasionally in the ...
A fisherman harvests blue crabs in the lagoon of Scardovari, south of Venice, Italy, on August 11, 2023. - Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images
For residents of Ocean City, July 2021 saw thousands of the horseshoe crabs floating in the inland canals. Reports to the Maryland Coastal Bays Program led to an investigation.
It can be distinguished from the closely related Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) by the presence of six frontal teeth on the carapace, compared with only four for C. sapidus. [2] C. ornatus is also smaller, at a maximum carapace width of only 93 millimetres (3.7 in), compared to 230 mm (9.1 in) in C. sapidus , and is therefore not ...