Portunidae
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| Macropipus tuberculatus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Superfamily: | Portunoidea |
| Family: | Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Portunidae is the family which contains the 44 genera of swimming crabs. It comprises some 320 species, including many well-known shoreline crabs such as the European shore crab (Carcinus maenas), blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), velvet crab (Necora puber) and lady crab (Ovalipes ocellatus).
Two genera in the family are contrastingly named Scylla and Charybdis; the former contains the economically important species black crab (Scylla serrata) and Scylla paramamosain.
Swimming crabs reach their greatest species diversity in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
[edit] Selected genera and species
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