Portunus
Temporal range:
Portunus hastatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Portunidae
Subfamily: Portuninae
Genus: Portunus
Weber, 1795 [1]
Type species
Cancer pelagicus
Synonyms[2]

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]

Species

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

References

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  1. ↑ "Portunus Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Portunus Weber, 1793". BioLib.
  3. ↑ "Portunus trituberculatus (Miers, 1876)". Species Fact Sheets. FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Sydney Fish Market: Crabs". Archived from the original on 2013-10-09. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
  5. ↑ Fossilworks
  6. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Portunus Weber, 1795". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
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