Mud crabs:
What it's called: mud crab
Where does it live: streams,rivers,lakes etc...
What is its diet:molluscs,smaller crabs, worms and plant materials
How long does it live for: 3-4 years round that typical age of living.
Personal information
Scientific name: scylla serrata
Rank: species
Higher classification: scylla
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
phylum: Arthropoda
Scylla serrata are like (mud crabs) the only difference between both species
Is that a scylla has skinnier snippers and a mud crab has thick bulky snippers
As a mud crab its home is under mud obviously why it is called a mud crab and a scylla crab is a genus of swimming crabs comprising four species of which serrata is most widespread.
Found in:
- Indo-west pacific
- South africa
- Around the coast of the indian ocean
- To the malay archipelago
- As Well as the southern japan to south eastern
- Australia
- And as far east as fiji and samoa.
Both of these species mud crab and scylla crab are now introduced to Hawaii and Florida
Explanation
A mud crab is a type of animal species that lives in the estuary rivers and mangroves of Tamaki River it lives in mud obviously why it takes its name mud crab. It has a scientific name scylla serrata. They specifically have a variety of colours up to a mottled green to very dark brown. Usually there found in the Indo-west pacific in the river there diet is worms, smaller crabs, molluscs they also eat plant materials its predators are larvae stage they can be eaten by small fish they are preyed on by fish species that live in the mangrove areas. Adult mud crabs have fewer preys however those are,rays,and larger fish. Mud crabs can live up to 3-4 years.
Mud crabs
