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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. In their most common forms, their shell colours vary from a deep, mottled green to very dark brown.
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 ]
Scylla serrata, Indo-Pacific Scylla tranquebarica , Indo-Pacific Sesarma , genus with close to 20 species, many of which live in mangroves, Americas, Indo-Pacific
Scylla serrata. Scylla serrata (known as mud crab, or more ambiguously as mangrove crab or black crab) is an economically important crab species found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia and Asia. In their most common form, the shell colour varies from a deep, mottled green to very dark brown.
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 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).
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 .