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Achelous ordwayi Stimpson, 1860 
AphiaID: 451838

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) > Portunidae (Family) > Portuninae (Subfamily) > Achelous (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Achelous de Haan, 1833
Synonymised
taxa
  Neptunus cruentatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1861
Portunus (Achelous) ordwayi (Stimpson, 1860)
Portunus aurimanus Forns, in Gundlach & Torralbas, 1900
Sources  from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Williams, A.B. 1984. Shrimps, lobsters, and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 550 p. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English redhair swimming crab (from synonym)  [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:451838
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-02-10 15:10:57Z  created  Davie, Peter
2010-02-25 15:41:33Z  changed  Davie, Peter
2011-01-05 08:26:45Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Achelous ordwayi Stimpson, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=451838 on 2013-05-24
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