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  2. Callinectes sapidus - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Portunus pelagicus - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Mictyris longicarpus - Wikipedia

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    Mictyris longicarpus, the light-blue soldier crab, is a species of crab that lives on sandy beaches from the Bay of Bengal to Australia; with other members of the genus Mictyris, it is "one of the most loved crabs in Australia". [2] Adults are 25 mm (1 in) across, white, with blue on their backs, and hold their claws vertically.

  5. Woman reveals beautiful blue crabs by dissolving sand

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    These tiny blue crabs were revealed in a handful of sand

  6. Portunidae - Wikipedia

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    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 ). Two genera in the family are contrastingly named Scylla and Charybdis ; the former contains the economically important species black crab ( Scylla ...

  7. Can Italy eat its way out of a blue crab infestation? - AOL

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    A fisherman harvests blue crabs in the lagoon of Scardovari, south of Venice, Italy, on August 11, 2023. - Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images

  8. Crab fisheries - Wikipedia

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    Portunus pelagicus (known as flower crabs, blue crabs, blue swimmer crabs, blue manna crabs or sand crabs) is a large crab found in the intertidal estuaries of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (Asian coasts) and the Middle-Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The name flower crab is used in east Asian countries while the latter names are used ...

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