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Photo by NicoleB

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Field Notes

Description:

From the description in the wiki entry, I figure that this one has been a female:

The males are bright blue in colour with white spots and with characteristically long chelipeds, while the females have a duller green/brown, with a more rounded carapace. The carapace can be up to 20 cm in width.

Habitat:

beach

Notes:

Sadly, pretty but dead, maybe he happened to become bird Lunch?

The second photo is an archive shot from 2007.
But same country and same species.

Reference Links:

Portunus pelagicus

Species ID Suggestions

Blue swimmer crab

Portunus pelagicus

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Cool, Daniele! Well, it's not like wiki is a scientific holy grail :-D Glad I got your confirmation though that you've seen them too. I think in my archives from 2007 and last year might be more shots. Need to keep digging :) (Only altogether 87.00 photos, but I guess you can relate to that :))

Nicole, just read your comment about wiki's Gulf omission for the blue swimmers... I saw them there too: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6363228

That's him. Thanks, Peter! I would have never found this one :) (And I wonder why the Middle East / Arabian Gulf is not mentioned in the distribution list on wiki)

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