WoRMS taxon details
Polybius Leach, 1820
AphiaID: 106928
AphiaID: 106928
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Portunoidea (Superfamily) > Polybiidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Polybius henslowii Leach, 1820 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Polybiidae Ortmann, 1893 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
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 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subgenus Polybius (Macropipus) Prestandrea, 1833 Subgenus Polybius (Polybius) Leach, 1820
Subgenus Polybius (Necora) Holthuis, 1987 accepted as Necora Holthuis, 1987
Species Polybius maculatus (Risso, 1827) accepted as Liocarcinus maculatus (Risso, 1827) Species Polybius mcleayi (Bernard, 1947) accepted as Xaiva mcleayi (Barnard, 1947) Species Polybius pusillus (Leach, 1815) accepted as Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1816) Species Polybius zariquieyi (Gordon, 1968) accepted as Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Synonymy: The genera Liocarcinus, Macropipus, Necora and Polybius of recent authors are related, and are probably a monophyletic group, separate from other genera of the Polybiinae. In order to stabilise the nomenclature, all speceis of the four genera are placed in a single genus, Polybius, with four subgenera. Three of these have been named already: Polybius, Necora and Macropipus. The fourth one will be named by Froglia and Manning. [details] Synonymy: A multitude of combinations have been used in the literature consulted; we've followed d'Udekem d'Acoz (1999) in his classification, and considered only his combinations as being valid. However, not all old combinations were explicitly mentioned in his work; since there is little doubt that the same taxa are ment, we placed them in synonymy. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106928 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Davie, P.; Türkay, M. (2013). Polybius Leach, 1820. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106928 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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