INTRODUCTION 



We prepared this bibliography to provide 

 scientific and industrial investigators an updated 

 and comprehensive list of references to the 

 literature on the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. 

 No comprehensive summary of blue crab litera- 

 ture has been published since a bibliography on 

 the genus by Cronin, Van Engel, Cargo, and 

 Wojcik in 1957. 



Almost all material included has been pub- 

 lished except for certain significant theses and 

 mimeographed reports. Relatively few of the 

 industrial trade journals were readily available to 

 us; consequently citations from these sources are 

 least represented. Not included are references to 

 patents (issued by U.S. Patent Office) relating to 

 capture and processing of crabs, newspaper 

 articles, references which only briefly mention 

 or list the species, and general references no 

 longer of current interest (such as announce- 

 ments of tagging programs). 



Authors are listed alphabetically, and each 

 author's works are listed chronologically by year 

 of publication. Works by two or more authors 



are entered only under the senior author's name. 

 The references were checked, and the contents 

 are annotated. A subject index also is provided. 



The reference material, including biblio- 

 graphic and abstracting sources, of the following 

 libraries was examined for references on the blue 

 crab: National Marine Fisheries Service Center 

 for Estuarine and Menhaden Research, Beaufort, 

 N.C.; Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beau- 

 fort, N.C.; and University of North Carolina 

 Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City, 

 N.C. Many publications were borrowed from 

 other libraries, particularly from various national 

 libraries in Washington, D.C., and vicinity. The 

 authors were not able to devote the time 

 required for a more extensive survey of the 

 literature, and some contributions undoubtedly 

 were overlooked. 



Rathbun (1896) reviewed the taxonomic 

 history of the genus and changed the name of 

 the blue crab from Callinectes hastatus Ordway 

 to C . sapidus. 



