Bibliography for Portunus Weber, 1795

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• Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp.
• Dana, J.D. 1852. Crustacea, Part 1. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(1): 1-685
• Davie, P.J.F. 1987. A new species and new records of Portunus (Decapoda: Portunidae) from Northern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25(1): 227-231 figs 1-3
• De Haan, W. 1833. Crustacea. i-xvii, i-xxxi, ix-xvi, 1-243 pls A-J, in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850]
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• Haswell, W.A. 1881. On some new Australian Brachyura. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6(3): 540-551
• Herbst, J.F.W. 1783. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Zurich : Joh. Casper Fuessly Vol. 1 Pts 2–5 pp. 87–182 pls 2–9. [3 volumes and an Atlas published from 1782–1804]
• Herbst, J.F.W. 1794. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer Systematischen Beischreibung ihrer Verschieden Arten. Berlin & Stralsund Vol. 2 Pt 5 pp. 147162 pls 37–40. [published from 1782–1804]
• 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
• Kailola, P.J., Williams, M.J., Stewart, P.C., Reichelt, R.E., McNee, A. & Grieve, C. 1993. Australian Fisheries Resources. Canberra : Bureau of Resource Sciences and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation 422 pp.
• Lai, J.C.Y., Ng, P.K.L. & Davie, P.J.F. 2010. A revision of the Portunus pelagicus species-complex (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae),with the recognition of four species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 58(2): 199–237 [Date published 31 Aug. 2010]
• Leach, W.E. 1814. Crustaceology. pp. 383-437 in Brewster, D. Sir (ed.). The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh : John Murray Baldwin & Cradocle Vol. 7 (2).
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp.
• Milne Edwards, A. 1861. Etudes zoologiques sur les Crustacés récents de la famille des Portuniens. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 10: 309-428 pls 28-38
• Milne Edwards, H. 1834. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces Animaux. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 1 xxxv 468 pp.
• Ng, P.K.L, Guinot, D. & Davie, P.J.F. 2008. Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1-286 [Date published 31 January 2008]
• Ng, P.K.L., Eldredge, L.G. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtis in 1938 and 1944. Zootaxa 3099: 43-56
• Procé, Marion de. 1822. Note sur plusieurs espèces nouvelles de poissons et de crustacés observés dans un voyage de France a Manilla. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 1822: 129-134 [not seen]
• Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1818. Review of Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. I Part I, Philadelphia [8 vols] 220 pp. and 9 pls, May to December, 1817. American Monthly Magazine 3: 269-274
• Rathbun, M.J. 1907. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross", from August,1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U.S.N., commanding. IX. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. X. The Brachyura. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 35(2): 23-74 pls 1-9
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• Stephenson, W. 1968. Studies on Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus) and P. sanguinolentus (Herbst). Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 23(15): 385-399
• Stephenson, W. 1968. Variability in the Sand Crab Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus) (Crustacea: Portunidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(2): 83-89 pl. 11
• Stephenson, W. & Campbell, B. 1959. The Australian Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae) III. The genus Portunus. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10(1): 84-124 pls 1-5
• Stephenson, W. & Cook, S. 1973. Studies of Portunus gladiator complex and related species of Portunus (Crustacea: Decapoda). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(3): 415-434
• Weber, F. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologian systematicam ill. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus. Chiloni et Hamburgi : C.E. Bohn viii 171 pp.

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