Blue crab may refer to:
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Blue Crab 11
The Blue Crab 11, also called the Gloucester 11, is an American utility dinghy that can be rowed, used as a motorboat or as a sailing dinghy. It was designed by Harry R. Sindle and first built in 1971. The design is named for the family of cr ...
, an American sailboat design
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Callinectes sapidus
''Callinectes sapidus'' (from the Ancient Greek ,"beautiful" + , "swimmer", and Latin , "savory"), the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or regionally as the Chesapeake blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic O ...
'' – Chesapeake or Atlantic blue crab of the West Atlantic, introduced elsewhere
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Cardisoma guanhumi'' – blue land crab of the West Atlantic
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Discoplax
''Discoplax'' is a genus of terrestrial crabs. It is very closely related to the genus ''Cardisoma''.
Five species are currently recognised:
*''Discoplax celeste'' 2012
*'' Discoplax gracilipes'' Ng & Guinot, 2001
*'' Discoplax longipes'' A. Mi ...
celeste'' – blue land crab of Christmas Island
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Paralithodes platypus'' – blue king crab of the North Pacific
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Portunus pelagicus'' – blue swimmer crab of Australia and Southwest Pacific
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Portunus segnis
''Portunus segnis'', the African blue swimming crab, is a species of crustacean, a swimming crab belonging to the family Portunidae. While native to the western Indian Ocean, it is also invasive in the Mediterranean. It is thought to have come ...
'' - an Atlantic species, was recently recorded in Tunisian waters, where it is invasive
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Portunus trituberculatus'' – Japanese blue crab of the Northwest Pacific
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