Subfamily Portuninae Rafinesque, 1815

Scylla serrata [from Rüppel 1830]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Portunidia Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Palermo (Italy) : Privately Published 224 pp. [Date published April to July] [97] [emended to Portunidae by Samouelle, G. 1819. The Entomologist's Useful Compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British Insects, comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linné, and modern methods of arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, spiders, mites and insects, from the affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology; a calendar of the times of appearance and usual situations of near 3,000 species of British Insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. London : Thomas Boys 496 pp. 12 pls (83); Name No. 69 on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 394. Additions to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the name Portunus Weber, 1795, and to the Official List of Rejected and Invalid Names in Zoology of the name Portunus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 12: 315–336].

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   Samouelle, G. 1819. The Entomologist's Useful Compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British Insects, comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linné, and modern methods of arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, spiders, mites and insects, from the affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology; a calendar of the times of appearance and usual situations of near 3,000 species of British Insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. London : Thomas Boys 496 pp. 12 pls.; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 394. Additions to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the name Portunus Weber, 1795, and to the Official List of Rejected and Invalid Names in Zoology of the name Portunus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 12: 315-336.
• Arenaeinae Dana, J.D. 1851. On the Classification of the Cancroidea. American Journal of Science and Arts 12(34): 121-131 [129].
• Lupinae Dana, J.D. 1851. On the Classification of the Cancroidea. American Journal of Science and Arts 12(34): 121-131 [129].
• Neptuniden Nauck, E. 1880. Das Kaugerüst der Brachyuren. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 34: 1-69 pl. 1 [65] [invalid name; not in Latin, unavailable name].
• Portumnoida Alcock, A. 1899. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 4. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part II. A Revision of the Cyclometopa with an Account of the Families Portunidae, Cancridae and Corystidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 68(Pt 2 No. 1): 1-104 [7].
• Atoportunini Števčić, 2005.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Manning, R.B. & Holthuis, L.B. 1981. West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 306: i-xii, 1-379 figs 1-88, 2 appendices [72] (with amendments)

Introduction

Specimens thought to represent the genus Cavoportunus Nguyen & Ng, 2010 have been found in Australian waters and have been identified to species level as Cavoportunus dubius (Laurie, 1906) - from images obtained from the NORFANZ Biological Survey, 2003.

Diagnosis

Carapace subhexagonal, usually distinctly to much broader than long, rarely subcircular; 4–9 pairs of anterolateral teeth. Basal antennal segment usually broad, elongate, lying obliquely, with anterolateral lobe not filling orbital hiatus; antennal peduncle and flagellum standing in orbit. Chelipeds longer than ambulatory legs, bearing a set of spines on merus, carpus and palm; last pair of legs with paddle-shaped propodi and dactyli. Male first gonopod without subterminal spines. (After Apel & Spiridonov 1998).

General References

Apel, M. & Spiridonov, V.A. 1998. Taxonomy and zoogeography of the portunid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) of the Arabian Gulf and adjacent waters. Fauna of Arabia 17: 159-331

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