Callinectes sapidus

Author
Rathbun, 1896
Common Names
  • Atlantic Blue Crab
  • Blue Crab
  • Chesapeake Blue Crab
  • Hardshell Crab
  • Softshell Crab

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Callinectes sapidus
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Callinectes sapidus
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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
90 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Bermuda, Nova Scotia–Argentina, east Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Jap
Habitat-Biology
  • benthopelagic
  • euryhaline
  • commercially important
  • reef lagoon
References

  • Hernández-Aguilera, J. L., R. E. Toral Almazán, and J. A. Ruiz Nuño. 1996. Especies catalogadas de crustaceos estomatopodos y decapodos para el Golfo de México, Rio Bravo, Tamps. a Progreso, Yuc. Conabio, Dirección de Oceanografia, Secretaría de Marina, México.

  • Melo, G. A. S. 1998b. Malacostraca - Eucarida. Brachyura. Oxyrhyncha and Brachyrhyncha. Pp. 455–515 in P. S. Young, ed. Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Museu Nacional, Série Livros n. 6, Rio de Janerio.

  • Rabalais, S. C., W. Pulich, N. Rabalais, D. L. Felder, R. Tinnin, and R. Kalke. 1989. A biological and physiographical characterization of the Rio Carrizal Estuary, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Contributions in Marine Science 31: 25–37.

  • Rathbun, M. J. 1898. The Brachyura of the biological expedition to the Florida Keys and the Bahamas in 1893. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 4: 250–294, 9 pls.

  • Raz-Guzman, A., and L. J. Sánchez. 1996. Catálogo illustrado de cangrejos braquiuros (Crustacea) de la Laguna de Tamiahua, Veracruz, Mexico. Cuadernos del Instituto de Biología (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) 31: 1–52.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-04-2024.

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