Portunus pusillus
creator: Cuvelier, Daphne
creator: Türkay, Michael
creator: Davie, Peter
creator: De Grave, Sammy
date: 2026-08-30
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Portunus pusillus Leach, 1816
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: DecaNet eds. (2026). DecaNet. Portunus pusillus Leach, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154310 on 2026-08-30
created: 2005-04-18T09:42:39Z
is replaced by: 151200
modified: 2024-05-06T13:14:36Z
rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Portunus pusillus Leach, 1816
accepted name usage ID: 151200
class: Malacostraca
family: Portunidae
genus: Portunus
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: 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. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(2): 306-400.
name published in year: 1816 [1815]
order: Decapoda
parent name usage ID: 106930
phylum: Arthropoda
scientific name authorship: Leach, 1816
specific epithet: pusillus
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: superseded combination