Scylla

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Scylla is a genus of swimming crabs, comprising four species, of which S. serrata is the most widespread. They are found across the Indo-West Pacific. The four species are:

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Scylla is a genus of swimming crabs, comprising four species, of which S. serrata is the most widespread. They are found across the Indo-West Pacific. The four species are:

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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, Australia, and Asia. In their most common...

Scylla paramamosain

Scylla paramamosain is a mud crab commonly consumed in Southeast Asia.

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-Pacific regions.