WoRMS taxon details
Achelous affinis Faxon, 1893
451835 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:451835)
accepted
Species
Portunus (Portunus) affinis (Faxon, 1893) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Portunus affinis (Faxon, 1893) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Faxon, W. (1893). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer ”Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. VI. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 24(7): 149-220. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2026). DecaNet. Achelous affinis Faxon, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=451835 on 2026-07-06
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Nomenclature
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Faxon, W. (1893). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer ”Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. VI. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 24(7): 149-220. [details]
new combination reference Mantelatto, F. L.; Robles, R.; Wehrtmann, I. S.; Schubart, C. D.; Felder, D. L. (2018). New insights into the molecular phylogeny of the swimming crabs of the genera Portunus Weber, 1795 and Achelous De Haan, 1833 (Brachyura: Portunidae) of the Americas. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 38(2): 190–197., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/rux119 [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Mantelatto, F. L.; Robles, R.; Wehrtmann, I. S.; Schubart, C. D.; Felder, D. L. (2018). New insights into the molecular phylogeny of the swimming crabs of the genera Portunus Weber, 1795 and Achelous De Haan, 1833 (Brachyura: Portunidae) of the Americas. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 38(2): 190–197., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/rux119 [details] Available for editors
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context source (CoRMS)
Faxon, W. (1895). The stalk-eyed Crustacea: Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the US Fish Commission Steamer" Albatross", during 1891, Lt. Commander ZL Tanner, USN, commanding. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 18, 1-292. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Achelous affinis)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (11 records) (from synonym Portunus (Portunus) affinis (Faxon, 1893))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Achelous affinis)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (11 records) (from synonym Portunus (Portunus) affinis (Faxon, 1893))
