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Portunidae Rafinesque 1815

Description

Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815

Callinectes amnicola (De Rochebrune, 1883) —CVI Guinot & Ribeiro (1962, as C. latimanus); inshore estuarine—Benthic, 0– 30 m. TSEA.

Callinectes marginatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) —CVI A. Milne-Edwards (1878, as C. africanus [var. de diacanthus]); shallow waters—Benthic. TSEA.

Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818) —CNI González et al. (2017a); 2–10 m—CVI A. Milne-Edwards (1869, as Goniosoma milleri); 2.5–20 m—Benthic, 5– 69 m. PANT.

Laleonectes vocans (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878) —CNI González (1995, as Portunus sp.); 5–10 m—CVI typelocality (as Neptunus vocans); 5–6 m—Benthic, 6– 37 m. AAWA.

Portunus (Portunus) hastatus (Linnaeus, 1767) —CNI Brullé (1839, as Lupa hastata); 2–60 m—CVI Fransen (1991); 20–40 m—Benthic. TSEA.

Portunus (Portunus) inaequalis (Miers, 1881) —CNI González (2016); 8–12 m—CVI Monod (1956, as Neptunus inaequalis); 4–15 m—Benthic, 4– 73 m. TSEA.

? Sanquerus validus (Herklots, 1851) —CVI González et al. (2004, as Portunus validus); 150–280 m (three specimens lost during the sinking of R / V “Taliarte”)—Benthic, 3–55 m. TSEA.

Thalamita poissonii (Audouin, 1826) —CNI Brullé (1839, as T. admete); 0.5–120 m—CVI Guinot & Ribeiro (1962, as T. africana); 2–8 m—Benthic, 0.5– 20 m. PANT.

Notes

Published as part of González, José A., 2018, Checklists of Crustacea Decapoda from the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, with an assessment of Macaronesian and Cape Verde biogeographic marine ecoregions, pp. 401-448 in Zootaxa 4413 (3) on page 427, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3769606

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
R, V , TSEA
Family
Portunidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rafinesque
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815 sec. González, 2018

References

  • Guinot, D. & Ribeiro, D. (1962) Sur une collection de Crustaces Brachyoures des iles du Cap-Vert et d'Angola. Memorias da Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Series 2, 40, 9 - 89.
  • Milne-Edwards, A. (1878) Description de quelques especes nouvelles de Crustaces provenant du voyage aux iles du Cap-Vert de MM. Bouvier et de Cessac. Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris, Serie 7, 2, 225 - 232.
  • Gonzalez, J. A., Triay-Portella, R., Escribano, A. & Cuesta, J. A. (2017 a) Northernmost record of the pantropical portunid crab Cronius ruber in the eastern Atlantic (Canary Islands): natural range extension or human-mediated introduction? Scientia Marina, 81, 81 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / scimar. 04551.17 B
  • Milne-Edwards, A. (1869) Description de quelques especes nouvelles de Crustaces provenant du voyage de M. A. Bouvier aux Iles du Cap-Vert. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 21, 350 - 355 + 374 - 378 & 409 - 412. [pp. 1 - 13 on separate]
  • Gonzalez, J. A. (1995) Catalogo de los Crustaceos Decapodos de las islas Canarias. Publicaciones Turquesa, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 282 pp.
  • Fransen, C. H. J. M. (1991) Preliminary report on Crustacea collected in the eastern part of the North Atlantic during the CANCAP and MAURITANIA Expeditions of the former Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, vi + 200 pp.
  • Miers, E. J. (1881) On a Collection of Crustacea made by Baron Hermann Maltzam at Goree Island, Senegambia. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5, 204 - 220 + 259 - 281 & 364 - 377.
  • Monod, T. (1956) Hippidea et Brachyura ouest-africains. Memoires de l'Institute Francais d'Afrique Noir, 45, 1 - 674.
  • Gonzalez, J. A., Garcia-Mederos, A. M., Perez-Penalvo, J. A., Correia, S., Monteiro, C., Medina, A., Gonzalez-Cuadrado, R., Rabasso, M., Dominguez-Seoane, R., Gimeno, M., Tuset, V. M., Lopez-Jurado, L. F. & Santana, J. I. (2004) Prospeccion con nasas para crustaceos y peces en aguas profundas de las Islas Cabo Verde. Resultados de la campana " Taliarte 2003 - 08 ". Informes Tecnicos del Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas, 11, 1 - 76.