Callinectes bocourti: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Callinectes
- Species
- Callinectes bocourti
- Scientific Name
- Callinectes bocourti
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Callinectes bocourti
Callinectes bocourti is a species of swimming crab. Its native range extends from Jamaica and Belize south to Brazil, but it has been found as a nonindigenous species as far north as North Carolina. This crab has a light brown shell with red spots and markings on it, and red claws and legs. C. bocourti is edible and has been the subject of small-scale fishery.
...Callinectes bocourti in languages:
- English
- Blunttooth swimcrab
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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