Scylla paramamosain

Scylla paramamosain
Green mud crab, Scylla paramamosain from Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia
Scientific classification
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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2011-06-18.
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 .