Scylla serrata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Scylla
- Species
- Scylla serrata
- Scientific Name
- Scylla serrata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Scylla serrata
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.
...Scylla serrata in languages:
- Chinese
- 鋸緣青蟹 (鋸緣青蟳)
- Chinese
- 紅蟳
- English
- Mud Crab
- English
- Black Crab
- English
- Samoan Crab
- English
- Mangrove Crab
- French
- Crabe de palétuvier
- Japanese
- アミメノコギリガザミ
- Portuguese
- Caranguejo-de-manguezal
- Thai
- ปูทะเล
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