ON THE BLUE CRAB, CALLINECTES SAPIDUS RATHBUN OBTAINED FROM SAGAMI BAY

Abstract

American edible crab, Callinectes sapidus RATHBUN has recently been obtained from Sagami Bay. Up to now there are two reports on the occurrence of this crab in Japanese waters. The first record was accounted by SATAKI in 1976, on the basis of the specimens obtained by a fisherman in 1975 at the Hamana Lake, Shizuoka prefecture. The second one was given by ARIYAMA in 1985. He described briefly on a female crab obtained from Osaka Bay in September of 1984. This short report deals with a brief account on the third record of this crab from Japanese waters.