Summary ³

The three-spot swimming crab (Portunus sanguinolentus), also known as the blood-spotted swimming crab or red-spotted swimming crab, is a large crab found throughout estuaries of the Indian and West Pacific Oceanic countries.

Tamil Name ⁴

முக்கண் நண்டு

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1. (c) Rohith Srinivasan, all rights reserved, uploaded by Rohith Srinivasan
2. (c) Vikas Madhav Nagarajan, all rights reserved, uploaded by Vikas Madhav Nagarajan
3. Adapted by Nanditha Ram Satagopan from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portunus_sanguinolentus
4. (c) Nanditha Ram Satagopan, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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