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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.
Red mangrove crab Neosarmatium meinerti Mangrove crab Mangrove crab. Mangrove crabs are crabs that live in and around mangroves.They belong to many different species and families and have been shown to be ecologically significant by burying and consuming leaf litter.
Scylla serrata; Scylla tranquebarica; Scylla paramamosain; Scylla olivacea; Members of the family Panopeidae, such as Panopeus herbstii; Members of the family Xanthidae; Helice crassa, the tunnelling mud crab
Scylla olivacea (Herbst, 1796) orange mud crab: Southeast Asia to Pakistan, and from Japan to northern Australia Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949: South China Sea south to the Java Sea Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775) black crab: Southern Japan to south-eastern Australia, northern New Zealand Scylla tranquebarica (Fabricius, 1798)
The blue crab Portunus pelagicus makes up 90% of all catches, with the rest is mostly made up of Portunus sanguinolentus, Charybdis feriata, Charybdis natator, Scylla oceanica, [a] Scylla serrata, and Podophthalmus vigil. Non-marketed species are often caught as by-catch, or in the case of Thalamita species, by hand. [20]: 47
Scylla paramamosain was described by Eulogio P. Estampador in 1949, as a subspecies of Scylla serrata. [4] [5] It is now known that the crabs previously referred to as S. serrata in China were mostly S. paramamosain. [6]
Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.Its members include many well-known shoreline crabs, such as the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) and velvet crab (Necora puber).
S. serrata may refer to: Saurauia serrata , a plant species endemic to Mexico Scylla serrata , the mud crab or mangrove crab, an economically important crab species found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia and Asia