Scylla serrata | 水產百科網

Scyllaserrata(oftencalledmudcrabormangrovecrab,althoughbothtermsarehighlyambiguous,andblackcrab)isanecologicallyimportantspeciesofcrab ...

Species of crab

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, Australasia, and Asia. In their most common forms, their shell colours vary from a deep, mottled green to very dark brown.

The natural range of S. serrata is in the Indo-Pacific. It is found from South Africa, around the coast of the Indian Ocean, where it is especially abundant in Sri Lanka, to the Southeast Asian Archipelago, as well as from southern Japan to south-eastern Australia, northern New Zealand,[1] And as far east as Fiji and Samoa.[2] The species has also been introduced to Hawaii and Florida.[2][3]

In Hawaii, mud crabs are colloquially kno...