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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. In their most common forms, their shell colours vary from a deep, mottled green to very dark brown. Distribution.
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.
Short description Morphology. Carapace smooth, with strong transverse ridges; H-shaped gastric groove deep; relatively broad frontal lobes, all more or less in line with each other; broad anterolateral teeth, projecting obliquely outwards.
Scylla serrata, also known as the Giant Mud Crab or the Mangrove Crab, is a swimming crab with an oval carapace. It has a broad native range in the Indian and tropical Western Pacific Ocean, ranging from South Africa, the Red Sea, and southern Japan east to New Zealand and Tahiti.
Jul 11, 2015 · The mud crab Scylla serrata is a highly exploited species, associated to mangrove ecosystems in the Indo-West-Pacific. It has a complex life cycle with a dispersing larvae phase, and benthic juveniles and adults.
The Mud crab we often eat at restaurants are actually from the Giant mud crab (Scylla serrata) which can grow to about 28cm. These come from Sri Lanka (thus sometimes also called the Sri Lankan crab).
Introduced species abundance Brazilian part of the South Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) : Two specimens of Scylla serrata were collected in Brazil, one in Santos, Sao Paulo State in 1983 (Melo 1983, cited by Tavares 2011), and one on Sepetiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro, in 2011.
These crabs are naturally found on mud or sandy-mud bottoms in mangroves and estuaries from South Africa to Japan, and from Australia to Micronesia. Scylla serrata exhibits the widest natural distribution of the four species.
Jul 11, 2015 · The mud crab Scylla serrata is a highly exploited species, associated to mangrove ecosystems in the Indo-West-Pacific. It has a complex life cycle with a dispersing larvae phase, and benthic...
This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract The mud crab Scylla serrata is a highly exploited species, associated to mangrove ecosystems in the Indo-West-Pacific. It has a complex life cycle with a dispersing larvae phase, and benthic juveniles and adults.
