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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.
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 ...
This makes it difficult for predators to remove them from their shell. This is an essential function to have as blue crabs are commonly seen chipping away at the shell ridge in order to feed on the snail. [5] Another method L. irrorata uses to avoid predation is vertical climbing of the grass S. alterniflorus. The snails climb up the grass ...
Blue crab from Everett, he says, includes only mature crabs as opposed to “white bellies” — younger crab that are smaller. Everett’s strictness about taking only larger mature crabs keeps ...
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Potamonautes lirrangensis, the Malawi blue crab, [2] is a species of freshwater crab in the family Potamonautidae. This common and widespread species is found in Lake Malawi , Lake Kivu , the upper Congo River Basin and Malagarasi River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Malawi , Rwanda , and Tanzania . [ 1 ]
Earlier in May, while collecting animals from the commercial fishing boats for the tanks at the Oceanarium, the fishing vessel Midnight Sun gave me a blue crab. He caught it while fishing for ...
Cardisoma guanhumi, also known as the blue land crab or great land crab, is a species of land crab found in tropical and subtropical estuaries and other maritime areas of land along the Atlantic coast of the Americas from Brazil [2] and Colombia, through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, to the Bahamas, and north to Ponce Inlet, Florida [3] Princess Place Preserve in Palm Coast, and Bermuda. [4]