Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Kingdom Eubrachyura > Kingdom Heterotremata > Superfamily Portunoidea

Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Carcininae MacLeay, 1838
Carupinae Paul'son, 1875
Portuninae Rafinesque, 1815
Thalamitinae Paul'son, 1875

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): svømmekrabber sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: wenkkrabben; zwemkrabben sources: de Ruijter, E.; Schoenmaker, A. (Ed.) (1989). Zeeboek [The sea book]. 2nd revised ed. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij JBU / Stichting Uitgeverij KNNV: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5107-007-1. 238 pp.;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: swimming crabs sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: swimming crabs sources: Charles Hussey

Norwegian: svømmekrabber sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: svømmekrabber

Norwegian Nynorsk: symjekrabbar

Nynorsk (Norwegian): symjekrabbar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: simkrabbor

Literature

basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventaire et distribution des crustacés décapodes de l'Atlantique nord-oriental, de la Méditerranée et des eaux continentales adjacentes au nord de 25°N [Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N]. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp.
additional source	Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp.

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Citation

Davie, P. (2014). Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106763