Persephona punctatus Linnaeus 1758 (crab)
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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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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