Portunus pelagicus
Translingual
Proper noun
- 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
- Category: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.