Tags: Crustacean.
The Florida stone crab Menippe mercenaria is a crab found in the western North Atlantic from Connecticut to Belize including Texas the Gulf of Mexico Cuba and the Bahamas that is widely caught for food. The closely related species Menippe adina (gulf stone crab) is sometimes considered a subspecies – they can interbreed forming hybrids – and they are treated as one species for commercial fishing with their ranges partly overlapping.
