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Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Indo-Pacific swamp crab (Scylla serrata) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [1]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.
Scylla olivacea (Herbst, 1796) orange mud crab: Southeast Asia to Pakistan, and from Japan to northern Australia Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949: South China Sea south to the Java Sea Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775) black crab: Southern Japan to south-eastern Australia, northern New Zealand Scylla tranquebarica (Fabricius, 1798)
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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
Current estimates place the number of mangrove crab species at 481 in 6 different families, with new species being discovered frequently. [5] Mangrove crabs primarily live in the Indo-West Pacific region in mudflats along tropical coasts. [10]
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]
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 .
S. serrata may refer to: Saurauia serrata , a plant species endemic to Mexico Scylla serrata , the mud crab or mangrove crab, an economically important crab species found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia and Asia