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 > Family Portunidae > Subfamily Portuninae > Genus Portunus > Subgenus Portunus (Portunus)

Portunus (Portunus) pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Portunus*	Weber, 1795	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: blue swimming crab sources: CRUST-L mailing list

Greek: Πελαγοκάβουρας

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	Webber, W.R.; Fenwick, G.D.; Bradford-Grieve, J.M.; Eagar S.G.; Buckeridge, J.S.; Poore, G.C.B.; Dawson, E.W.; Watling, L.; Jones, J.B.; Wells, J.B.J.; Bruce, N.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Larsen, K.; Chapman, M.A.; Olesen, J.; Ho, J.; Green, J.D.; Shiel, R.J.; Rocha, C.E.F.; Lörz, A.; Bird, G.J.; Charleston, W.A. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232.
additional source	Crosnier, A. (1962). Faune de Madagascar. XVI Crustaces Decapodes: Portunidae.
additional source	Fourmanoir, P. (1954). Crabes de la cote ouest de Madagascar. Le Naturaliste Malgache VI, Fasc. 1/2. 16 pp.
additional source	Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453

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Genbank

No records found.

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
GBIF

Citation

Davie, P. (2014). Portunus (Portunus) pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:107404