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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Eucarida (Crabs, Crayfish, Shrimp, etc.) (Eucarida) » Crabs, Crayfishes, Lobsters, Prawns, and Shrimp (Decapoda) » True Crabs (Brachyura) » Swimming Crabs (Portunidae) » Callinectes » Atlantic Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus)

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Blue Crab - Callinectes sapidus

Cameron, Cameron Parish, Louisiana, USA
July 11, 2008

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Blue Crab - Callinectes sapidus

Blue Crab - Callinectes sapidus

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Contributed by Genethib on 22 August, 2014 - 3:58pm
Last updated 22 August, 2014 - 6:37pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 22 August, 2014 - 6:37pm

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Hey I like crabs as much as t

Hey I like crabs as much as the next guy, but crabs aren't really "bugs" and this is Bug Guide after all.....

… Xi Wang, 22 August, 2014 - 6:16pm

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There is a section on this site for crustaceans

http://bugguide.net/node/view/350294

… Genethib, 22 August, 2014 - 6:38pm

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Crustaceans are Arthropods...

...and thus covered by BG.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 22 August, 2014 - 6:32pm

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Ah, thanks, I didn't realize

Ah, thanks, I didn't realize there was a crustacean section on here. I've always thought of "Bug"Guide in a colloquial manner...probably would've been less misleading to call it "ArthropodGuide" but it loses its ring.

… Xi Wang, 22 August, 2014 - 6:44pm

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Understandable.

Of coarse, if one wanted to be real formal, i guess "bug" would only refer to those insects belonging to order Hemiptera.

… Genethib, 22 August, 2014 - 6:51pm

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Again, I agree. I've never re

Again, I agree. I've never really thought about this in depth till now I suppose - how does the average person define "bug"? I picture creatures on land with exoskeletons and multiple jointed legs but I don't know if most people would also think like that (i.e. if you find some random people on the street and ask them what a bug is).

… Xi Wang, 22 August, 2014 - 7:11pm

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