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Petrolisthes elongatus, known as the New Zealand half crab, [2] elongated porcelain crab, blue half crab, blue false crab or simply as the half crab or false crab, [3
Mictyris is a genus of brightly coloured crabs, placed in its own taxonomical family, the Mictyridae. [1] It inhabits the central Indo-West Pacific region. These crabs congregate on mud flats or beaches in groups of a few thousand, and filter sand or mud for microscopic organisms.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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]
Blue crab may refer to: Blue Crab 11, an American sailboat design; Callinectes sapidus – Chesapeake or Atlantic blue crab of the West Atlantic, introduced elsewhere; Cardisoma guanhumi – blue land crab of the West Atlantic; Discoplax celeste – blue land crab of Christmas Island; Paralithodes platypus – blue king crab of the North Pacific