Persephona punctatus Linnaeus 1758 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae

Alternative combinations: Cancer punctata, Guia punctata

Synonym: Persephona latreillii Leach 1817

Belongs to Persephona according to J. A. Todd and J. S. H. Collins 2005

See also Collins and Morris 1976, Holmes 1860, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1935 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Persephona bigranulata, Persephona enigmatica, Persephona invalida, Persephona manningi, Persephona mediterranea, Persephona niemeyeri, Persephona prepunctata, Persephona punctata, Persephona rodesae

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Persephona punctatus in the database

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