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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Portunidae |
| Genus: | Portunus |
| Species: | P. pelagicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Portunus pelagicus | |
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Portunus pelagicus, also known as the blue crab, blue swimmer crab, blue manna crab and flower crab is a species of large crab found in the Indo-Pacific, including off the coasts Indonesia,[1] Malaysia,[2] Cambodia,[3] Thailand,[4] the Philippines,[5] and Vietnam;[6] and in the intertidal estuaries around most of Australia and east to New Caledonia.[7]
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- ^ "Wild-caught blue swimming crab in the Philippines". Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
- ^ "Research paper: Study of the impact of intermediaries on environmental and social outcomes and worker vulnerability in small-scale fishing and aquaculture in Indonesia and Viet Nam". 9 March 2021.
- ^ Lai, Joelle C Y; Ng, Peter K L; Davie, Peter J F (2010). "A revision of the Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758) species complex (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae), with the recognition of four species". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 58 (2): 199–237. ISSN 0217-2445.