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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.
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 .
Portunus trituberculatus [5] Portunus pelagicus. 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.
Portunus pelagicus: Mal kakuluwaa (මල් කකුලුවා) Three-spot swimming crab. Portunus sanguinolentus: Mudu kakuluwaa (මුදු කකුලුවා) Mangrove crab. Scylla serrata: Kalapu kakuluwaa (කලපු කකුලුවා)
Brown crab (Cancer pagurus), blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus), blue swimming crabs (Portunus pelagicus), and red swimming crabs (Portunus haanii) are among the most commercially available species of crabmeat globally. [citation needed] In some fisheries, crab meat is harvested by declawing of crabs. This is the process whereby one or both claws ...
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. [19]: 47
Portunus sanguinolentus, the three-spot swimming crab, blood-spotted swimming crab or red-spotted swimming crab, [1] is a large crab found throughout estuaries of the ...
Portunus pelagicus – blue swimmer crab of Australia and Southwest Pacific; Portunus segnis - a Western Indian Ocean species, was recently recorded in Tunisian waters, where it is invasive; Portunus trituberculatus – Japanese blue crab of the Northwest Pacific