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three spot swimming crab

Portunus sanguinolentus

Classification

Portunus sanguinolentus, the three-spot swimming crab, blood-spotted swimming crab or red-spotted swimming crab, is a large crab found throughout estuaries of the Indian and West Pacific Oceanic countries. Distribution Portunus sanguinolentus is a cosmopolitan species widely distributed across all major waters of the Indo-Pacific; it is found throughout the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, the Malay Peninsula, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore,…

Distribution

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