Callinectes bocourti

Taxobox | name = Callinectes bocourti


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Portunidae
genus = "Callinectes"
species = "C. bocourti"
binomial = "Callinectes bocourti"
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"Callinectes bocourti" (common name, blunt-tooth swimming crab) is a species of swimming crab. They live mainly in the Atlantic Ocean. They can range from the gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean. Populations have been have in the coast of northern south America. The Crab has red claws and legs. The shell light brown with red spots and markings on it. They have been use in commercial fishing. It is prepare the same way as Blue crabs. The species was formally known as "Cancer pelagicus".

External links

* " [http://ctd.mdibl.org/detail.go;jsessionid=5338E32B8F8C0B096FCF9CAD042BFC27?type=taxon&acc=146763 Callinectes bocourti info] "

* " [http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?SpeciesID=2252 Callinectes bocourti info and picture] "