Mud crab may refer to any
crab 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''
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Scylla paramamosain
''Scylla paramamosain'' is a 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 aquaculture
Aquaculture (less ...
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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 liv ...
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Panopeus herbstii''
*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 i ...
*''Helice crassa'', the
tunnelling mud crab
The tunnelling mud crab, ''Austrohelice crassa'', is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Grapsidae, endemic to the sea coasts of New Zealand. Their carapace
A carapace is a Dorsum (biology), dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or she ...
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