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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Decapods
  6. Heterotrematan Crabs
  7. Swimming Crabs and Allies

superfamily

Swimming Crabs and Allies

Portunoidea

Includes
20 native 3 introduced 15 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Swimming Crabs 17 native
  • Deepsea Crabs 3 native
  • Carcinidae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native swimming crabs and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Atlantic Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus 25,250 observations
  • Ocellate Lady Crab Ovalipes ocellatus 5,329 observations

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