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Image Bank - Crustaceans

Blue Swimmer Crab, Male

Reference

IB0459

Category

Crustaceans

Family Name

Crabs - BRACHYURA

Common Name

Blue Swimmer Crab, Male

Scientific Name

Portunus armatus

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Blue Swimmer Crabs are powerful swimmers and voracious hunters and scavengers. In Western Australia they can grow to 25 cm wide.
They eat mainly small fishes, crustaceans, molluscs and worms

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