Portunidae

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Portunidae
Liocarcinus depurator.jpg
Liocarcinus depurator
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Portunidae
Rafinesque, 1815 [1]
Subfamilies
  • Caphyrinae Guérin, 1832
  • Carcininae MacLeay, 1838
  • Carupinae Paul'son, 1875
  • Podophthalminae Dana, 1851
  • Polybiinae Ortmann, 1893
  • Portuninae Rafinesque, 1815
  • Thalamitinae Paul'son, 1875

Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.

Description[]

Portunid crabs are characterised by the flattening of the fifth pair of legs into broad paddles, which are used for swimming.[2] This ability, together with their strong, sharp claws, allows many species to be fast and aggressive predators.[2]

Examples[]

Its members include many well-known shoreline crabs, such as the European shore crab (Carcinus maenas), blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), and velvet crab (Necora puber). Two genera in the family are contrastingly named Scylla and Charybdis; the former contains the economically important species black crab (Scylla serrata) and Scylla paramamosain.

Taxonomy[]

The circumscription of the family varies, with some authors treating "Carcinidae", "Catoptridae" and "Macropipidae" as separate families,[1] and others considering them subfamilies of a wider Portunidae.[3] Swimming crabs reach their greatest species diversity in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[4]

Extinct genera are marked with an obelisk.

Caphyrinae Guérin, 1832
  • Guérin, 1832
  • Edmondson, 1930
  • Lissocarcinus Adams & White, 1849
  • † Müller, 1978
Carcininae MacLeay, 1838
  • Carcinus Leach, 1814
  • † Karasawa & Fudouji, 2000
  • † Müller, 1984
  • Leach, 1814
  • MacLeay, 1838
Carupinae Paul’son, 1875
  • Dana, 1851
  • A. Milne-Edwards, 1870
  • Libystes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
  • † Lőrenthey, 1898
  • † Müller, 1984
  • Manning & Felder, 1989
Podophthalminae Dana, 1851
  • Stimpson, 1860
  • Lamarck, 1801
  • † Schweitzer, Iturralde-Vinent, Hetler & Velez-Juarbe, 2006
  • † Rathbun, 1919
  • † Collins, Lee & Noad, 2003
  • † Karasawa, Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2008
Polybiinae Ortmann, 1893
  • Bathynectes Stimpson, 1871
  • Alcock & Anderson, 1899
  • † Busulini, Tessier, Beschin & De Angeli, 2003
  • Števčić, 1991
  • A. Milne-Edwards, 1879
  • † Collins & Jakobsen, 2003
  • † Beschin, Busulini, De Angeli & Tessier, 2007
  • Liocarcinus Stimpson, 1871
  • Prestandrea, 1833
  • † Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2002
  • † Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2000
  • † Karasawa, 1990
  • Necora Holthuis, 1987
  • † Rathbun, 1935
  • Parathranites Miers, 1886
  • † Remy, 1960
  • Polybius Leach, 1820
  • † Glaessner, 1980
  • † Collins, Schulz & Jakobsen, 2005
  • Portunites † Bell, 1858
  • † Feldmann, Casadío, Chirino-Gálvez & Aguirre-Urreta, 1995
  • Ng, 2000
  • † Woodward, 1871
Portuninae Rafinesque, 1815
  • † Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2002
  • Arenaeus Dana, 1851
  • Ng & Takeda, 2003
  • Callinectes Stimpson, 1860
  • Lenz in Lenz & Strunck, 1914
  • † Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929
  • Cronius Stimpson, 1860
  • † Karasawa, Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2008
  • Manning & Chace, 1990
  • Rathbun, 1897
  • Lupocyclus Adams & White, 1849
  • † A. Milne-Edwards, 1881
  • Portunus Weber, 1795
  • † Portell & Collins, 2004
  • Rathbunella † Collins in Collins, Portell & Donovan, 2009
  • Manning, 1989
  • Scylla De Haan, 1833
Thalamitinae Paul’son, 1875
  • Charybdis De Haan, 1833
  • † Beschin, Busulini, De Angeli & Tessier, 2002
  • Leene, 1938
  • Latreille, 1829
  • A. Milne-Edwards, 1869
incertae sedis
  • † A. Milne-Edwards, 1860
  • Neptunus † de Haan 1839

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b P. J. F. Davie (2002). "Portunidae". Crustacea: Malocostraca: Eucarida (Part 2), Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura. Volume 19 of Zoological catalogue of Australia, Australia. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 442–446. ISBN 978-0-643-05677-0.
  3. ^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  4. ^ "WoRMS taxon details, Ovalipidae Spiridonov, Neretina & Schepetov, 2014". World Register of Marine Species. 2019. doi:10.14284/170. Retrieved 2019-12-29.

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