swimming crab in English
noun
1
a coastal crab that has paddlelike rear legs for swimming.
The shelves and fissures which bisect these rocks are home to edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs , prawns, squat lobsters and the occasional large common lobster.
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1. Charybdis natator - Charybdis natator, the ridged swimming crab, wrinkled swimming crab or rock crab, is a widespread Indo-Pacific species of swimming crab from the genus Charybdis
2. Charybdis longicollis - Charybdis longicollis, the lesser swimming crab, is a species of crab from the swimming crab family, the Portunidae.
3. The bathyal swimming crab, Bathynectes longispina, is a species of crab in the family Polybiidae.
4. Liocarcinus vernalis, the grey swimming crab, is a small, shallow-water crab in the family Portunidae.