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Rappin Mikey 08-25-2016 09:23 AM

Blue Crabs in Puerto Rico
 
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?

thefishingfreak 08-25-2016 08:48 PM

I bet lots of people catch crabs in Puerto Rico
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FishermanTim 08-26-2016 10:07 AM

:nopics:

The first post NOT the last!!!!

Raven 08-26-2016 07:43 PM

it's the water

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ioluminous.jpg

Rappin Mikey 08-26-2016 08:05 PM

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.

Rappin Mikey 09-03-2016 07:40 PM

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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.

Rappin Mikey 09-03-2016 07:43 PM

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

Sea of Atlas 09-03-2016 08:58 PM

Blue Land Crabs I think?
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Rappin Mikey 09-03-2016 09:11 PM

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

RickBomba 09-04-2016 05:55 AM

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

JohnR 09-05-2016 08:32 AM

big ass crab

Gonna need a bigger can (of Old Bay)

Gary 09-06-2016 10:52 PM

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

more likely
http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/2604...es-exasperatus


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