Callinectes marginatus

Taxobox | name = Callinectes marginatus


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Portunidae
genus = "Callinectes"
species = "C. marginatus"
binomial = "Callinectes marginatus"
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"Callinectes marginatus" (common name, Sharptooth Swimcrab) is a species of swimming crab. They are sometimes kept in marine aquariums, but can become predatory pests. Like many species of this genus they live mainly in the Atlantic ocean. Their diet compose of mainly shrimps, sea snails and carrion. This species are not used in commercial sea food fisheries.

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