Blue Crab
Coastal Habitats
Animal Life on the Salt Marsh
Callinectes sapidus
Blue crabs are very common in coastal bays and shallow waters of salt marshes. They take shelter where they find it, hiding among salt marsh plants or in eel grass, or digging right into the soft mud of the open bayfloor.
These crabs eat almost anything they can get their claws on from fish to shelllfish to dead animals on the bottom of the bay.
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