Scylla serrata

Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775) Scylla serrata — Gordon 1931: 527; Shen 1932a: 36, text-figs. 4, 5, pl. 7b; Shen 1940a: 219; Hill et al. 1975: 77; Morton 1976: 105; Morton 1979b: 136, tab. 7.1; Melville and Morton 1983: 11, 1 unnumb. fig. (13); Morton and Morton 1983: 229, fig. 11.11(11); SY Lee 1993: 203; Lui et al. 2007: tab. 1; Bravo et al. 2021: tab. 2. Taxonomy: Keenan et al. (1998), Ng (1998), Yang et al. (2012). Type locality: Central coast of Yemen, Red Sea (neotype). Type: Neotype ò QM W20917 (designated by Keenan et al. 1998). Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to Central Pacific: verified from South Africa, Mauritius, Red Sea, Philippines, Taiwan and Okinawa (Japan), Indonesia, A r a f u r a S e a, A u s t r a l i a, S o l o m o n I s l a n d s, N e w Caledonia, Fiji and western Samoa (Keenan et al. 1998). Habitat: Intertidal; in mangrove forests inundated with full salinity oceanic water for greater part of the year (Keenan et al. 1998). Remarks: This widely distributed commercially valuable species has long being recorded as “ Scylla serrata ” despite variations in morphology and coloration reported (Estampador 1949; Serène 1952), until the revision by Keenan et al. (1998) using morphological and molecular data showed otherwise (see also Fushimi and Wanatabe 2000). The distributions of the four recognized species include southern China (Ng 1998; Yang et al. 2012). It is not possible to identify older records with any accuracy without good illustrations and some of the records are probably also mixed as well. We retain the local records as above.