The only information that I could find on it was that it is the lack of a gene that causes them to be blue. Some lobsters are blue because they are albinos, perhaps this is the same with crawdads. In the wild, you will sometimes find blue crayfish because of a genetic mutation. But there are also blue crayfish sold in aquarium stores that have been grown to be blue by giving them a feed that lacks red pigment.
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You need to be more specific in what type of blue crab you are referring to. There are at least three different species of crab commonly known as blue crab.Atlantic Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus)Blue Crab (Portunus pelgaicus)Japanese Blue Crab (Portunus trituberculatus)
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A baby crab is called megalops.
the blue crab is eaten by us and other blue crabs
The blue crab is a general term that refers to four different species that share similarities:The blue king crab (Paralithodes platypus)The blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus) The Japanese blue crab (Portunus trituberculatus)The Chesapeake/Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus)The Japanese blue crab and the blue swimmer crab are the only two that are within the same genus.
It is a green hermit crab with blue claws.
Yes the Blue Crab is wild - by the simple fact it lives in the ocean means it is wild. It is not tamed nor is it farmed.
The blue crab is a scavenger. It eat what ever it can find on the ocean floor.
Neither. It is not a vertebrate, so it cannot be either. A crab is a crustacean.
The blue crab, not the king or snow crab of Alaska fame.
Maryland produces the most blue crab in the United States.