Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Blotched Swimming 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
- Achelous gibbesii
- Achelous depressifrons
- Achelous xantusii
- Portunus pelagicus
- Portunus trituberculatus
- Achelous hastatus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Achelous
- Species
- Achelous spinimanus
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