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Scylla (crustacean)

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Scylla is a genusofswimming crabs, comprising four species,^[1] of which S. serrata is the most widespread. They are found across the Indo-West Pacific.^[2] The four species are:^[3]^[1]

Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
Scylla olivacea (Herbst, 1796)	orange mud crab	Southeast Asia to Pakistan, and from Japan to northern Australia
Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949		South China Sea south to the Java Sea
Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775)	black crab	Southern Japan to south-eastern Australia, northern New Zealand
Scylla tranquebarica (Fabricius, 1798)		Pakistan and Taiwan to the Malay Archipelago and other Indo-Pacific regions

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^ L. Le Vay (2001). "Ecology and management of mud crab Scylla spp". Asian Fisheries Science. 14: 101–111. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25.

^ 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.

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