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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.
Local springs in Lake George (and throughout the St Johns River) impart enough salt to the system to make the habitat suitable to resident and migratory marine species like Atlantic stingray, various species of mullet, striped bass and blue crabs. There is a large enough blue crab population to support a local fishery, making it one of the only ...
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The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus was chosen as the state crustacean of Maryland in 1989. [17] C. sapidus is a crab found in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific coast of Central America and the Gulf of Mexico. The blue crab may grow to a carapace width of 230 mm (9.1 in).
The range of the optimum. Tolerance ranges are not necessarily fixed. They can change as: Seasons change. Environmental conditions change. Life stage of the organism changes. Example – blue crabs. The eggs and larvae require higher salinity than adults. The range of the optimum may differ for different processes within the same organism.
Cardisoma guanhumi (blue land crab, juey común) [9] Gecarcinus lateralis (blackback land crab, red land crab, jueyita de tierra, mona) [10] Gecarcinus ruricola (purple land crab, black land crab, juey morao) [11] Arenaeus cribarius (Speckled swimming crab, cocolía marina, pecosa) [12] Callinectes bocourti (Bocourt swimming crab, cocolía de ...
It prefers areas of lower salinity than other fiddler crabs, [3] and can be found in great numbers along the banks of tidal streams, even at distances greater than 50 km (31 mi) from the sea. [ 4 ] Minuca minax was formerly in the genus Uca , but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Minuca , a former subgenus of Uca .