Callinectes bocourti

Callinectes bocourti is a species of swimming crab. Its native range extends from Jamaica and Belize south to Brazil, but it has been found as a nonindigenous species as far north as North Carolina.^[2] This crab has a light brown shell with red spots and markings on it, and red claws and legs.^[2] C. bocourti is edible and has been the subject of small-scale fishery.^[2]

Callinectes bocourti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Portunidae
Genus:	Callinectes
Species:	C. bocourti
Binomial name
Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 [1]