Scylla paramamosain
Green mud crab, Scylla paramamosain
from Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Portunidae
Genus: Scylla
Species:
S. paramamosain
Binomial name
Scylla paramamosain
Estampador, 1949

Scylla paramamosain is a mud crab commonly consumed in Southeast Asia.

Distribution

Identification

Scylla paramamosain is found along the coastlines of the South China Sea down to the Java Sea.[1][2] It is now produced by aquaculture farms in southern Vietnam.[3]

Taxonomy

Scylla paramamosain was described by Eulogio P. Estampador in 1949, as a subspecies of Scylla serrata.[4][5] It is now known that the crabs previously referred to as S. serrata in China were mostly S. paramamosain.[6]

References

  1. ^ Keenan, Clive P.; Davie, Peter J.F.; Mann, David L. (1998). "A revision of the genus Scylla de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 46 (1): 217–245.
  2. ^ "Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949". Crabs of Japan. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
  3. ^ Stig M. Christensen; Donald J. Macintosh & Nguyen T. Phuong (2004). "Pond production of the mud crabs Scylla paramamosain (Estampador) and S. olivacea (Herbst) in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, using two different supplementary diets". Aquaculture Research. 35 (11): 1013–1024. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2109.2004.01089.x.
  4. ^ W. Stephenson & B. Campbell (1960). "The Australian Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). IV. Remaining Genera". Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 11 (1): 73–122. doi:10.1071/MF9600073.
  5. ^ Jesse D. Ronquillo; Zandro V. Pura & Rex M. Traifalgar. ""Seedling" production and pond culture of hatchery-produced juveniles of the mud crab Scylla oceanica Dana, 1852". In Frederick R. Schram & J. C. von Vaupel Klein (eds.). Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 20-24, 1998 (PDF). Crustacean Issues. Vol. 12. Brill Publishers. pp. 999–1011. ISBN 978-90-04-11387-9.
  6. ^ Ling-Bo Ma; Feng-Ying Zhang; Chun-Yan Ma & Zhen-Guo Qiao (2006). "Scylla paramamosain (Estampador) the most common mud crab (Genus Scylla) in China: evidence from mtDNA". Aquaculture Research. 37 (16): 1694–1698. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2109.2006.01603.x.
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