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Portunus pelagicus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz (IEO-CSIC), Puerto Pesquero, Muelle de Levante s / n, 11006 Cádiz, Spain.
- 2. Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos s / n, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
- 3. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
- 4. Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN-CSIC), República Saharaui, 2, Puerto Real, 11519 Cádiz, Spain.
Description
Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Fig. 63
Material examined
ERITREA − Mitsiwa • 1 ♀ (120 ×57.7); Raffray? Deyrolle leg.; MNCN20.04/03208.
Remarks
First record for Eritrean waters, although there is a record very close in the northern waters of Djibouti (DecaNet 2025). The rostral area and shape of the ventral lobe of the propodus of P5 may differentiate this species from P. segnis (Forskål, 1775) (see Lai et al. 2010).
For identification, see also Lai et al. (2010) and Naderloo (2017).
Notes
Published as part of Muñoz, Isabel, García-Raso, J. Enrique, Chillón, Begoña Sánchez & Cuesta, Jose A., 2025, Marine crabs from African waters housed in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC): An opportunity for biogeographic and systematic studies. Part I: Heterotremata (Decapoda, Brachyura), pp. 1-94 in European Journal of Taxonomy 996 on page 57, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.996.2915, http://zenodo.org/record/15633323
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNCN
- Material sample ID
- MNCN20.04/03208
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Portunus
- Species
- pelagicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Muñoz, García-Raso, Chillón & Cuesta, 2025
References
- Lai J. C. Y., Ng P. K. L. & Davie P. J. F. 2010. A revision of the Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758) species complex (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae), with the recognition of four species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 58 (2): 199-237.
- Naderloo R. 2017. Atlas of Crabs of the Persian Gulf. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49374-9