name: Blue Crab

flavor_db_name_variants: blue crab

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Blue crab

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name_scientific: Callinectes sapidus

description: Callinectes sapidus (from the Greek calli- = "beautiful", nectes = "swimmer", and Latin sapidus = "savory"), the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or regionally as the Chesapeake blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and introduced internationally. C. sapidus is of significant culinary and economic importance in the United States, particularly in Louisiana and in the Chesapeake Bay. It is the Maryland state crustacean and is the state's largest commercial fishery.

itis_id: 98696

wikipedia_id: Callinectes_sapidus

picture_file_name: 306.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 69896

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:32:04.000Z

legacy_id: 333

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Crustaceans

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:31.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:22.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 6763

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00303