Portunus (original) (raw)
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Genus of crabs
For the Roman god or Roman temple to the god of the same name, see Portunus (mythology).
| _Portunus_Temporal range: Paleogene - Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Portunus hastatus | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Portunidae |
| Subfamily: | Portuninae |
| Genus: | PortunusWeber, 1795 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Cancer pelagicusLinnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
| Lupa Leach, 1814_Lupea_ Leach, 1814_Neptunus_ De Haan, 1833 |
Portunus is a genus of crabs which includes several important species for fisheries, such as the blue swimming crab and the Gazami crab.[3] Other species, such as the three-spotted crab are caught as bycatch.[4]
Fossil of Portunus convexus
The genus Portunus contains 13 extant species and another 26 species known only from fossils. Fossils of crabs within this genus can be found in sediment of Europe, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and Australia from Paleogene to recent (age range: 48.6 to 0.0 million years ago).[5]
The following species are recognised in the genus Portunus:[6]
- †_Portunus alphonsei_ Karasawa, Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2008
- Portunus armatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)
- †_Portunus atecuicitli_ Vega, Feldmann, Villalobos-Hiriart & Gío-Argíez, 1999
- †_Portunus atropatanus_ Aslanova & Dzhafarova, 1975
- Portunus convexus De Haan, 1835
- †_Portunus gabbi_ Rathbun, 1919
- †_Portunus haitensis_ Ratbun, 1923
- Portunus hawaiiensis Stephenson, 1968
- †_Portunus kochii_ (Bittner, 1893)
- †_Portunus krambergeri_ (Bittner, 1893)
- †_Portunus levigatus_ Rathbun, 1945
- Portunus madagascariensis (Hoffmann, 1874)
- †_Portunus miocaenicus_ Müller, 1984
- Portunus mokyevskii Zarenkov, 1970
- †_Portunus muelleri_ Collins, 2014
- †_Portunus neogenicus_ Müller, 1979
- †_Portunus oblongus_ Rathbun, 1920
- †_Portunus obvallatus_ Morris & Collins, 1991
- †_Portunus pankowskiorum_ Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2015
- Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Portunus pirabaensis Martins-Neto, 2001
- †_Portunus pubescens_ (Dana, 1852)
- Portunus radobojanus (Bittner, 1884)
- †_Portunus reticulatus_ (Herbst, 1799)
- †_Portunus ristorii_ Karasawa, Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2008
- Portunus rufiarcus Davie, 1987
- Portunus sanguinolentus (Herbst, 1783)
- †_Portunus sanshianus_ Hu, 1984
- Portunus sayi (Gibbes, 1850)
- Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775)
- †_Portunus stenaspis_ (Bittner, 1884)
- †_Portunus suessii_ (Bittner, 1875)
- †_Portunus tenuis_ Rathbun, 1919
- †_Portunus tongfai_ Hu, 1981
- Portunus trituberculatus (Miers, 1876)
- †_Portunus viai_ Secrétan in Philippe & Secrétan, 1971
- †_Portunus withersi_ (Glaessner, 1933)
- †_Portunus woodwardi_ Morris & Collins, 1991
- †_Portunus yaucoensis_ Schweitzer, Iturralde-Vinent, Hetler & Velez-Juarbe, 2006
- ^ "Portunus Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
- ^ "Portunus Weber, 1793". BioLib.
- ^ "Portunus trituberculatus (Miers, 1876)". Species Fact Sheets. FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
- ^ "Sydney Fish Market: Crabs". Archived from the original on 2013-10-09. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
- ^ Fossilworks
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Portunus Weber, 1795". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-06-15.