sook
Callinectes sapidus
#nm_0610📍 International
- Language
- English
- Transliteration
- sook
English sook (Chesapeake dialect term for a mature female blue crab); origin obscure, not securely traced to any other English word
Swimming crab (Portunidae) native to the western Atlantic from Cape Cod to Argentina. Distinctive blue coloration, carapace up to 23cm wide. Invasive in the Mediterranean, where it threatens native mollusk populations.
Female of: Blue crab