Portunus pelagicus

Translingual

Proper noun

Portunus pelagicus m

1. A taxonomic species within the family Portunidae – flower crab.

Usage notes

• Some authors have recently extracted three species from Portunus pelagicus, sensu lato: Portunus segnis, Portunus reticulatus, and Portunus armatus. They are more southerly in habitat than the southeast and east Asian Portunus pelagicus, sensu stricto.

Hypernyms

• (species): Decapoda - order; Pleocyemata - suborder; Brachyura - infraorder; Portunoidea - superfamily; Portunidae - family; Portunus - genus

Further reading

• Portunus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Portunus pelagicus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Portunus pelagicus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Portunus pelagicus at World Register of Marine Species
• Portunus pelagicus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Portunus pelagicus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.