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title: "Florida Stone Crab"
description: "Menippe mercenaria — Inne zwierzęta. The Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) is a crab found in the western North Atlantic, from Connecticut to Colombia, including Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, Belize, Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the East Coast of the United States."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/florida-stone-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Florida Stone Crab

> Menippe mercenaria — Inne zwierzęta. The Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) is a crab found in the western North Atlantic, from Connecticut to Colombia, including Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, Belize, Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the East Coast of the United States.

- Scientific name: *Menippe mercenaria*
- Category: `other` (Inne zwierzęta)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 1879
- Wikidata: [Q5461759](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5461759)
- iNaturalist taxon: [131045](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/131045)

## Names

- en: Florida Stone Crab
- de: Große Steinkrabbe
- es: Cangrejo moro

## Countries with the most observations

US (1492), MX (35), CU (7), BZ (5)

## Summary

The Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) is a crab found in the western North Atlantic, from Connecticut to Colombia, including Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, Belize, Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the East Coast of the United States. The crab can also be found in and around the salt marshes of South Carolina and Georgia. The closely related species Menippe adina, the gulf stone crab, is sometimes considered a subspecies as they can interbreed to form hybrids, and they are treated as one species for commercial fishing, with their ranges partly overlapping. The two species are believed to have diverged approximately…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_stone_crab

## Photo

![Florida Stone Crab](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/florida-stone-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: Christine Braaten · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101283461

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/florida-stone-crab?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).