It is red star pike crab.

The red star pike crab is also known as three-point crab, three-eyed crab, pike crab, gun crab, sea worm and water crab. Body transverse long rhombic, for the typical shape of the pike crab. The anterior part of the cephalothoracic armor surface has microscopic granules and white cloud patterns. The dorsal shell is 15 centimeters wide, slightly smaller than that of pike crabs of the same family. The underside of the shell has 3 eye spots and the shell is gray-green.

The red star pike crab is tasty and nutritious. Pike crabs that have crossed their tails and matured their ovaries but have not spawned have a higher nutritional value and are richer in protein, fat and vitamins, comparable to river crabs in fall and winter.

Nutritional content: 14 grams of protein and 2.6 grams of fat per 100 grams of crab.

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Range of Distribution

Distributed throughout the warm-water areas of Japan, Hawaii, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, the Malay Archipelago, and the Indian Ocean up to the coast of South Africa. It is found throughout the Indo-Pacific warm-water zone off the coast, on Taiwan Island, and in Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian in mainland China, where it lives in seawater, mostly on the muddy, sandy seabed at depths of 10-30 meters.

Food Compatibility

Crab should not be eaten with sweet potatoes, honey, oranges, pears, pomegranates, tomatoes, melons, peanuts, snails, celery, persimmons, rabbit, thorns. Eating crabs should not drink cold drinks will lead to diarrhea.

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