Pacific blue swimming crab
Portunus pelagicus
Category: Crabs & Lobsters
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Portunus
Where to Find
Found in 13 diving areas across 10 countries and 4 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 29 records
- South Australia, Australia - 13 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 174 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 6 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Dubai & Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 2 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 3 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 7 records
- Koh Tao, Thailand - 2 records