Scylla paramamosain
| Scylla paramamosain | |
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| Green mud crab, Scylla paramamosain from Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Portunidae |
| Genus: | Scylla |
| Species: | S. paramamosain
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| Binomial name | |
| Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949
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Scylla paramamosain is a
mud crab commonly consumed in Southeast Asia
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Distribution
Scylla paramamosain is found along the coastlines of the South China Sea down to the Java Sea.[1][2] It is now produced by aquaculture farms in southern Vietnam.[3]
Taxonomy
Scylla paramamosain was described by Eulogio P. Estampador in 1949, as a subspecies of Scylla serrata.[4][5] It is now known that the crabs previously referred to as S. serrata in China were mostly S. paramamosain.[6]
References
- ^ Keenan, Clive P.; Davie, Peter J.F.; Mann, David L. (1998). "A revision of the genus Scylla de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 46 (1): 217–245.
- ^ "Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949". Crabs of Japan. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
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