Portunus sanguinolentus, the three-spot swimming crab, blood-spotted swimming crab or red-spotted swimming crab, is a large crab found throughout estuaries of the Indian and West Pacific Oceanic countries.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Three-spotted Swimmer Crab being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Portunus trituberculatus
- Callinectes ornatus
- Callinectes bellicosus
- Callinectes similis
- Callinectes danae
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Portunus
- Species
- Portunus sanguinolentus
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