green crab
Callinectes sapidus
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- English
- Transliteration
- green crab
English green crab (moult-stage term for a blue crab well before its next moult); green in the horticultural sense of unripe or immature, not a description of shell color
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.