What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Blunttooth swimcrab been recorded?

Callinectes bocourti occurrence evidence comes from 73 records in 12 countries and territories, from 1899 to 2014. Most records come from United States.

Blunttooth swimcrab
Blunttooth swimcrab — Photo (display-sized rendition): Martin-Lefèvre P. · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
MalacostracaDecapodaPortunidaeCallinectes

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

73 records across 12 countries and territories, 1899–2014.

Callinectes bocourti · GBIF taxon key 2225648

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: October.

7 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18992014

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Blunttooth swimcrab has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Blunttooth swimcrab. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 50
Dominican Republic 6
Puerto Rico 4
US Virgin Islands 3
Costa Rica 2
Panama 2
Colombia 1
Jamaica 1
Saint Lucia 1
Mexico 1
Trinidad & Tobago 1
Venezuela 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.