Mud crab may refer to any
crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) ( el, βραχύς , translit=brachys = short, / = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the ...
that lives in or near
mud
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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, Australasia, and Asia. In their ...
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Scylla tranquebarica
''Scylla tranquebarica'' is a species of mangrove crab in the genus ''Scylla''. ''Scylla tranquebarica'', one of several crabs known as the mud crab, is found in mangrove areas from Pakistan and Taiwan to the Malay Archipelago and other Indo-Paci ...
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Scylla paramamosain
''Scylla paramamosain'' is a mud crab (disambiguation), mud crab commonly consumed in Southeast Asia.
Distribution
''Scylla paramamosain'' is found along the coastlines of the South China Sea down to the Java Sea. It is now produced by aquacul ...
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Scylla olivacea
''Scylla olivacea'', commonly known as the orange mud crab, is a commercially important species of mangrove crab in the genus ''Scylla''. It is one of several crabs known as the mud crab and is found in mangrove areas from Southeast Asia to Paki ...
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*Members of the family
Panopeidae
The Panopeidae are a family containing 26 genera of morphologically similar crabs, often known as "mud crabs". Their centers of diversity are the Atlantic Ocean and eastern Pacific Ocean.
Distribution
Most members of the family Panopeidae live ...
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Panopeus herbstii
''Panopeus herbstii'' (the ''black-fingered mud crab'', ''black-clawed mud crab'', ''Atlantic mud crab'' or sometimes ''common mud crab'') is a true crab, belonging to the infraorder Brachyura, and is the largest of the mud crabs.
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*Members of the family
Xanthidae
Xanthidae is a family of crabs known as gorilla crabs, mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs. Xanthid crabs are often brightly coloured and are highly poisonous, containing toxins which are not destroyed by cooking and for which no antidote is ...
*''Helice crassa'', the
tunnelling mud crab
The tunnelling mud crab, ''Austrohelice crassa'', is a marine (ocean), marine large-eyed crab of the family (biology), family Grapsidae, endemism, endemic to the sea coasts of New Zealand. Their carapace width is up to 40 mm.
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