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Subgenus Portunus (Xiphonectes) A. Milne Edwards, 1873

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Subgenus Portunus (Xiphonectes) A. Milne Edwards, 1873

  • Xiphonectes Milne Edwards, A. 1873. Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Pt. 2. Groupe des Cyclometopes Neptunens. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 9: 155-332 pls 4-18 [157] [gender masculine].
    Type species:
     Amphitrite vigilans Dana, 1852 by subsequent designation, see Rathbun, M.J. 1930. The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 152: i-xvi 1-609, text-figs 1-85 pls 1-230 [33]
  • Hellenus Milne Edwards, A. 1879. Etudes sur les Xiphosures et les Crustacés Podophthalmiens, pts v & vi. pp. 185–224 pls xxxi–xxxix, pp. 225–264 pls xv. a, xxviii, xl–xliii & xlv–xlviii In, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale, Recherches Zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune de l'Amérique centrale et du Mexique. Pt 3 [210, 221] [gender masculine].
    Type species:
     Achelous spinicarpus Stimpson, 1871 by subsequent designation, see Rathbun, M.J. 1930. The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 152: i-xvi 1-609, text-figs 1-85 pls 1-230 [33]

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Stephenson, W. & Campbell, B. 1959. The Australian Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae) III. The genus Portunus. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10(1): 84-124 pls 1-5 [87]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Lord Howe Island
    • Northern Territory: N coast
    • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast, SE oceanic
    • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, NW coast