Callinectes Stimpson 1860 (swimming crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae

Parent taxon: Portuninae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Feldmann et al. 2003, Feldmann and Wilson 1988, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Karasawa et al. 2008, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1918, Rathbun 1926, Rathbun 1935 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanthoportunus, Achelous, Arenaeus, Colneptunus, Cronius, Portunus, Pseudoachelous, Rathbunites

Subtaxa: Callinectes alabamensis Callinectes bellicosus Callinectes bellicosusdup Callinectes declivis Callinectes jamaicensis Callinectes paraensis Callinectes quilonensis Callinectes reticulatus Callinectes sapidus Callinectes toxodes

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Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), United States (20: California, Maryland, Massachusets, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2), Jamaica (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2), United States (1: Virginia)

• Miocene of Brazil (5), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Panama (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (4: Florida, Maryland, Virginia)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Alabama)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Panama (1)

Total: 53 collections including 63 occurrences

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