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Callinectes sapidus (Blue Crab)
Scientific name: Callinectes sapidus

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia → Phylum Arthropoda → Subphylum Crustacea → Superclass Multicrustacea → Class Malacostraca → Subclass Eumalacostraca → Superorder Eucarida → Order Decapoda → Suborder Pleocyemata → Infraorder Brachyura → Section Eubrachyura → Subsection Heterotremata → Superfamily Portunoidea → Family Portunidae → Subfamily Portuninae → Genus Callinectes

Common name: Blue Crab
Locations: Caribbean
Group: Marine LifeInvertebratesCrabs
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