Callinectes bocourti | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Portunidae |
Genus: | Callinectes |
Species: | C. bocourti
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Binomial name | |
Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 [1]
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Callinectes bocourti is a species of swimming crab. Its native range extends from Jamaica and Belize south to Brazil, but it has been found as a nonindigenous species as far north as North Carolina.[2] This crab has a light brown shell with red spots and markings on it, and red claws and legs.[2] C. bocourti is edible and has been the subject of small-scale fishery.[2]