Portunus segnis

Portunus segnis is a species of swimming blue crab which has become invasive in the Mediterranean. It came through the Suez Canal from the Indian Ocean. It reached Tunisian waters in 2014. It has proved very destructive to fish stocks. It is now itself a species profitably fished for.

Portunus segnis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Portunidae
Genus:
Portunus
Species:
P. segnis
Binomial name
Portunus segnis

Tunisian fishermen nickname it "Daesh" after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant because of its invasiveness and destructiveness.[1]

A new fishery to catch them has started.[2][3]

References
  1. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=portunus+invasive+tunisia Google search
  2. https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/tunisia-carthage-crabs-emerging-as-new-source-of-blue-swimming-crab
  3. "Tunisia fishermen turn tide to cash in on blue crab menace". phys.org. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
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