| Scylla paramamosain | |
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| Green mud crab,Scylla paramamosain fromBekasi, WestJava,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 amud crab commonly consumed inSoutheast Asia.
Scylla paramamosain is found along the coastlines of theSouth China Sea down to theJava Sea.[1][2] It is now produced byaquaculture farms in southern Vietnam.[3]
Scylla paramamosain was described by Eulogio P. Estampador in 1949, as asubspecies ofScylla serrata.[4][5] It is now known that the crabs previously referred to asS. serrata inChina were mostlyS. paramamosain.[6]
