Portunoidea is a superfamily of crabs that includes the family Portunidae, the swimming crabs. Which other crab families are also placed here is a matter...
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Palicoidea (63, 6†) Parthenopoidea (144, 36†) Pilumnoidea (405, 47†) Portunoidea (455, 200†) Potamoidea (662, 8†) Pseudothelphusoidea (276) Pseudozioidea...
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Palicoidea Bouvier, 1898 Parthenopoidea MacLeay, Pilumnoidea Samouelle, 1819 Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 Potamoidea Ortmann, 1896 Pseudothelphusoidea Ortmann...
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Angeli (2018). "Bericocarcinus alontensis n. gen., n. sp. (Brachyura, Portunoidea, Macropipidae) nuovo crostaceo dell'Eocene superiore di Alonte (Monti...
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Scylla serrata (category Portunoidea)
Scylla serrata (often called mud crab or mangrove crab, although both terms are highly ambiguous, and black crab) is an ecologically important species...
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Carcinus maenas (category Portunoidea)
Carcinus maenas is a common littoral crab. It is known by different names around the world. In the British Isles, it is generally referred to as the shore...
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Portunus pelagicus (category Portunoidea)
Portunus pelagicus, also known as the blue crab, blue swimmer crab, blue manna crab and flower crab is a species of large crab found in the Indo-Pacific...
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Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Portunoidea Family: Ovalipidae Spiridonov, Neretina & Schepetov, 2014...
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Carcinidae (category Portunoidea)
Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Portunoidea Family: Carcinidae MacLeay, 1838...
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Portunus haanii (category Portunoidea)
Portunus haanii (swimming crab, red swimming crab, red swimmer crab, or warty swimming crab) is a species of crab. It is a source of commercial crab meat...
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Velvet crab (category Portunoidea)
Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Portunoidea Family: Polybiidae Genus: Necora Holthuis, 1987 Species: N. puber Binomial...
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Pasini, G.; Garassino, A. (2024). "A new portunid crab (Brachyura, Portunoidea) from the upper Middle Miocene of Sardinia, Italy". Neues Jahrbuch für...
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Callinectes sapidus (category Portunoidea)
Callinectes sapidus (from the Ancient Greek κάλλος,"beautiful" + nectes, "swimmer", and Latin sapidus, "savory"), the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or...
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Portunidae (category Portunoidea)
Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Portunoidea Family: Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815 Subfamilies Achelouinae Spiridonov...
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Scylla tranquebarica (category Portunoidea)
Scylla tranquebarica is a species of mangrove crab in the genus Scylla. Scylla tranquebarica, one of several crabs known as the mud crab, is found in mangrove...
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Portunus sanguinolentus (category Portunoidea)
Portunus sanguinolentus, the three-spot swimming crab , blood-spotted swimming crab or red-spotted swimming crab, is a large crab found throughout estuaries...
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Scylla olivacea (category Portunoidea)
Scylla olivacea, commonly known as the orange mud crab, is a commercially important species of mangrove crab in the genus Scylla. It is one of several...
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Leucosioidea Majoidea Orithyioidea Palicoidea Parthenopoidea Pilumnoidea Portunoidea Potamoidea Pseudothelphusoidea Pseudozioidea Retroplumoidea Trapezioidea...
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Corystidae into Corystoidea, and both Pirimelidae and Thiidae into Portunoidea. Montezumellidae has been moved from Cancroidea to his own Superfamily...
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Portunus trituberculatus (category Portunoidea)
Portunus trituberculatus, also known as the gazami crab, Asian blue crab or horse crab, is the most widely fished species of crab in the world. It is found...
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Charybdis lucifer (category Portunoidea)
Charybdis lucifer, also known as the yellowish-brown crab, is a species of swimming crab in the family Portunidae. The type locality of this species is...
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Charybdis (crab) (category Portunoidea)
Charybdis is a genus of swimming crabs in the family Portunidae. It is named after the monster Charybdis of Greek mythology. The genus Charybdis contains...
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Podophthalmus vigil (category Portunoidea)
Podophthalmus vigil is a species of swimmer crab found in tropical areas of the Indo-Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, Japan, South Africa, the Red Sea...
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Liocarcinus vernalis (category Portunoidea)
Liocarcinus vernalis, the grey swimming crab, is a small, shallow-water crab in the family Portunidae. L. vernalis was thought for a long time to be a...
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Callinectes (category Portunoidea)
Callinectes is a genus of crabs, containing 16 extant species, including the Atlantic blue crab, C. sapidus: "Callinectes Stimpson, 1860". Integrated Taxonomic...
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Charybdis hellerii (category Portunoidea)
Charybdis hellerii, the Indo-Pacific swimming crab or spiny hands is a species of crab from the swimming crab family, the Portunidae. Its native range...
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Carcinus (category Portunoidea)
Carcinus (Greek: Καρκίνος Karkinos) is a genus of crabs, which includes Carcinus maenas, an important invasive species, and C. aestuarii, a species endemic...
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Chaceon quinquedens (category Portunoidea)
crab from Alaska. However, they are actually members of the superfamily Portunoidea, or swimming crabs, so are more closely related to blue crabs Callinectes...
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Carcineretidae (category Portunoidea)
Cretaceous fossils. These crabs are tentatively placed in the superfamily Portunoidea and resemble the swimming crabs (Portunidae) in having some paddle-shaped...
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Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Portunoidea Family: Thiidae...
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