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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, 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.
(blue) native range single sightings which did not result in an invasion (red) introduced or invasive range (green) potential invasive range C. maenas is native to European and North African coasts as far as the Baltic Sea in the east, and Iceland and Central Norway in the north, and is one of the most common crabs throughout much of its range.
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 ]
These habitats have a depth range of 0–20 meters (0–66 feet), a sea surface salinity range of 30-35 ppt, and a sea surface temperature range of 20–30 °C (68–86 °F). [ 3 ] Behavior
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Portunus is a genus of crabs which includes several important species for fisheries, such as the blue swimming crab and the Gazami crab. [3] Other species, such as the three-spotted crab are caught as bycatch. [4] Fossil of Portunus convexus. The genus Portunus contains 13 extant species and another 26 species known only from fossils.
rugose swimming crab: western Atlantic Ocean. Callinectes gladiator Benedict, 1893: Mauritania to Angola. Callinectes marginatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) the Cape Verde Islands and Nouadhibou, Mauritania to Angola. Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863: western Atlantic Ocean, as well the Caribbean coastlines. Callinectes pallidus (Rochebrune, 1883)