Difference between the two:

The Indonyssinian green crab, commonly known as the mud crab, is a giant pike crab species. This crab is farmed along the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian in China and is rich in protein and trace elements, and is fat and succulent at a high price.?

The green crab is a seawater crab, the green crab is also known as the saw edge green crab, Guangdong called the paste crab. Taiwan, Fujian called red sturgeon. South Zhejiang region called the grim crab, the Philippines called mud crab. Green crab is a wide temperature and salt sea crabs, growing environment is in the warm sea area, because of the body color green and named, mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan coastal areas, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, has been developed to the state of complete freshwater aquaculture.

The difference between green crab and pike crab

1, living environment

Pike crab for seawater crabs, like to live in the shallow sea at a depth of 10 to 50 meters of muddy sandy substrate near the shore, although the green crab belongs to the seawater crabs, but it likes to live in estuaries, inland bays, mangrove forests, such as a slightly lower salinity of the near-shore mud marshes, but also like to hide under the stones.

2, the appearance of the characteristics

green crab because of the body color green and named, the appearance of the oval, cephalothorax division is more like a small jagged fan, the green crab body shape is more flat, hairless, cephalothorax developed, cephalothorax armor width of about 1.5 times as long as the back of the smooth rise, the chelae are strong and powerful, the hind feet shaped like hawser.

The pike crab is named for its cephalothoracic armor, which is like the shape of a weaving shuttle. Most pike crabs have a light gray-green cephalothoracic armor, small round white spots on the anterior gill area, and the chelipeds are purplish-red or purplish-blue bands with white spots, and the ventral surface is white.