- English Common Name
- Orange Mud Crab
- Scientific name
- Scylla olivacea
- Taxonomy
- Order: Decapoda, Family: Portunidae
- Size
- About 20 cm (width of the shell)
- Species Distributio
- West Pacific. Southern China Sea to Indian Ocean, up to around coast of Pakistan
- Okinawan Common Name
- Gasami (general term for family Portunidae)
- Okinawa Red List of Threatened Species: Near Threatened
- In Japan, there are three species of genus Scylla: S. paramamosain, S. serrata, and S. olivasea. Until just recently, these three species used to be considered as one species. Among the three, S. olivasea is the smallest species. The claws are very powerful, and they can break human fingers or Achilles tendon if the crab is threatened.
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- Updated August 2018
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