Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Alternative spellings: Podophthalmidae, Podopthalminae
Full reference: J. D. Dana. 1851. On the Classification of the Cancroidea; III. Zoology. Scientific Intelligence. American Journal of Science and Arts, second series, XII 34:121-131
Parent taxon: Portunidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Collins et al. 2003, Dana 1851, Karasawa et al. 2008, Kesling 1958, Luque et al. 2017, Morris and Collins 1991, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Archaeoportunus, Arenaeinae, Carcinides, Carupinae, Enoplonotus, Lupinae, Lupocyclinae, Necronectinae, Neptunus, Portuninae, Psammocarcininae, Thalamitinae
Subtaxa: Euphylax Paraeuphylax Pheophthalmus Podophthalmus Psygmophthalmus Sandomingia Saratunus Viaophthalmus
Type: Podophthalmus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Guam (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), the Philippines (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (3), Cuba (1), Japan (1), Panama (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Anguilla (1), Brazil (2), Brunei Darussalam (1), Chile (1), Cuba (2), Malaysia (5), Mexico (1), Panama (2), Puerto Rico (1), United States (1: Puerto Rico), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Cuba (1)
• Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Spain (1)
• Cretaceous of Mexico (2)
Total: 41 collections including 44 occurrences