Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection Heterotremata > Superfamily Portunoidea > Family Portunidae > Subfamily Portuninae

Callinectes Stimpson, 1860

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Callinectes danae Smith, 1869
Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: アオガザミ属

Literature

original description	Stimpson, W. (1860). Notes on North American Crustacea, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 7(22): 177-246, pls. 2-4 [preprint April 1860, journal issue 1862].
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	Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp.
additional source	Stephenson, W. (1972). An annotated checklist and key to the Indo-Pacific swimming crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae). Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin. 10: 1-64.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Callinectes Stimpson, 1860. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106921