Portunus

Portunus; Temporal range: Paleogene - Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Portunus hastatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Portunidae
Subfamily:	Portuninae
Genus:	Portunus; Weber, 1795
Type species
	Cancer pelagicus; Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
	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]

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

^ "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.

External links

Media related to Portunus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Portunus at Wikispecies

[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.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]