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Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Indo-Pacific swamp crab (Scylla serrata) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [1]Scylla serrata (often called mud crab or mangrove crab, although both terms are highly ambiguous, and black crab) is an ecologically important species of crab found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia, and Asia.
Scylla tranquebarica is a species of mangrove crab in the genus Scylla. Scylla tranquebarica, one of several crabs known as the mud crab, is found in mangrove areas from Pakistan and Taiwan to the Malay Archipelago and other Indo-Pacific regions. [1]
Panopeus herbstii, also known as the black-fingered mud crab, black-clawed mud crab, Atlantic mud crab or sometimes common mud crab, is a species of true crab, belonging to the infraorder Brachyura, and is the largest of the mud crabs. Panopeus herbstii is small, growing to about 4 cm, with black-tipped claws of unequal size.
Helice crassa, the tunnelling mud crab Index of animals with the same common name This page is an index of articles on animal species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Scylla olivacea, commonly known as the orange mud crab, is a commercially important species of mangrove crab in the genus Scylla. It is one of several crabs known as the mud crab and is found in mangrove areas from Southeast Asia to Pakistan , and from Japan to northern Australia .
Scylla is a genus of swimming crabs, comprising four species, [1] of which S. serrata is the most widespread. They are found across the Indo-West Pacific . [ 2 ] The four species are: [ 3 ] [ 1 ]
Eurypanopeus depressus, the flatback mud crab or depressed mud crab, is a true crab belonging to the infraorder Brachyura and the family Panopeidae. [2] It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean and is often found in estuaries and lagoons, commonly living in close association with oysters .
Crabs of the family Panopeidae are all free-living (not commensal or parasitic), [2] and typically live in soft-bottomed parts of the ocean, [3] lending them the common name "mud crabs" (a name also shared by other organisms). They burrow into the sediment and feed on a variety of marine invertebrates.