Scylla paramamosain

Scylla paramamosain is a mud crab commonly consumed in Southeast Asia.

Scylla paramamosain
Green mud crab, Scylla paramamosain from Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Portunidae
Genus:	Scylla
Species:	S. paramamosain
Binomial name
Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949

Distribution

Identification

Scylla paramamosain is found along the coastlines of the South China Sea down to the Java Sea.^[1][2] It is now produced by aquaculture farms in southern Vietnam.^[3]

Taxonomy

Scylla paramamosain was described by Eulogio P. Estampador in 1949, as a subspecies of Scylla serrata.^[4][5] It is now known that the crabs previously referred to as S. serrata in China were mostly S. paramamosain.^[6]