WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819) Latreille, P.A. (1819). Portune, <i>Portunus</i>, Fabr., Lam., Bosc, Latr., Léach (sic); <i>Cancer</i>, Linn., Deg., Oliv.; <i>Lupa</i>, Léach (sic). <em>Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Appliquée aux Arts, a l'Agriculture, à l'Économie Rurale et Domestique, à la Médicine, etc. Nouvelle Édition.</em> 28: 40-55. [details] 
original description
(of Lupa Banksii Leach, 1816) Leach, W.E. (1816 [1815]). A tabular View of the external Characters of Four Classes of Animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta, with the Distribution of the Genera comprising Three of these Classes into Orders &c. and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 11(2): 306-400., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756873 [details] 
original description
(of Achelous spinimanus var. smithii Verrill, 1908) Verrill, A.E. (1908). Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda; I, - Brachyura and Anomura. Their distribution, variations, and habits. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 13: 299-474, pls. 9-28. [details] 
original description
(of Portunus vossi Lemaitre, 1991) Lemaitre, R. (1991). To the memory of Gilbert L. Voss: <i>Portunus vossi</i>, a rare new species of swimming crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from the west coast of Florida. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 49(1-2): 546-551. [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Mantelatto, F.L.; Robles, R.; Schubart, C.D.; Felder, D.L. (2009). Molecular phylogeny of the genus <em>Cronius</em> Stimpson, 1860, with reassignment of <em>C. tumidulus</em> and several American species of <em>Portunus</em> to the genus <em>Achelous</em> De Haan, 1833 (Brachyura: Portunidae). <em>In: Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (eds).</em> CRC Press, England, pp. 567–579., available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420092592-c29 [details]
Unreviewed
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) [details]
Habitat Soft bottom (mud or sand) [details]
Language | Name | |
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English |
blotched swimming crab |
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German |
Flecken-Schwimmkrabbe |
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