I had a student show me some pictures of crabs that he caught while visiting Puerto Rico. They looked exactly like blue crabs, but were WAY WAY bigger than I have ever seen. Anybody got info on these monsters?

I bet lots of people catch crabs in Puerto Rico
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The first post NOT the last!!!!

it's the water

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/bioluminous.jpg

His mom works at my school. I will try and remember to have her send me the pic on Monday. With the claws spread in defense position, it must have been at least 2 feet across. One of the bigger ones he showed me was mostly red. I will try and get that one too.

OK got the pics. One of the crabs was almost completely red like it had been steamed? The kid said they got way bigger than that too.

Sorry, the pics of the bigger ones and the red one wouldn't upload

Blue Land Crabs I think?
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The other pics show the distinctive flipper back legs. Def some kind of relative to our blue claws. The Blue land crabs look more like some kind of muppet fiddler type crab

Hehehehe,
Let's hunt for muppets. I'll go first. One plus one equals ?

big ass crab

Gonna need a bigger can (of Old Bay)

http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/browseDB/SpeciesSummary.jsp?TSN=98703

more likely
http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/260405-Callinectes-exasperatus