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Species of crab
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
^ 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.
^
"Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949" . Crabs of Japan . Retrieved June 18, 2011 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .