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Ridged Swimming Crab
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Ridged Swimming Crab

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 . It gets its name from the ridges on the dorsal surface of the carapace. It is a crab species which is of minor importance in fisheries.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 354388.