ADW: Portunus: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Protostomia (protostomes)
      - Ecdysozoa
        
        Arthropoda
        
        Class Malacostraca
        
        Order Decapoda
        
        Superfamily Portunoidea
        
        Family Portunidae (swimming crabs)
        
        Genus Portunus
        
        Species Portunus anceps (delicate swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus argentatus
        
        Species Portunus binoculus (redspot swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus depressifrons (flatface swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus euglyphus
        
        Species Portunus floridanus
        
        Species Portunus gibbesii (iridescent swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus granulatus
        
        Species Portunus hastatus
        
        Species Portunus latipes
        
        Species Portunus longispinosus
        
        Species Portunus macrophthalmus
        
        Species Portunus orbicularis
        
        Species Portunus ordwayi (redhair swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus pelagicus
        
        Species Portunus pubescens (hairy swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus sanguinolentus (three spot swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus sayi (sargassum swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus sebae (ocellate swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus spinicarpus (longspine swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus spinimanus (blotched swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus tuberculosus (blood-spot swimming crab)
        
        Species Portunus ventralis
        
        Species Portunus vossi
        
        Species Portunus xantusii (Xantus swimming crab)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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