Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Parent taxon: Portunidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Dana 1851, Feldmann and Wilson 1988, Karasawa 1993, Karasawa et al. 2008, Luque et al. 2017, Morris and Collins 1991, Schweitzer et al. 2004, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Archaeoportunus, Arenaeinae, Carcinides, Carupinae, Enoplonotus, Lupinae, Lupocyclinae, Necronectinae, Neptunus, Podophthalminae, Psammocarcininae, Thalamitinae
Subtaxa: Acanthoportunus Achelous Arenaeus Callinectes Colneptunus Persianus Portunus Pseudoachelous Rathbunites
Type: Portunus
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Brazil (1), Jamaica (2), Mexico (2), Panama (2), Spain (3), United States (28: California, Florida, Flrida, Maryland, Massachusets, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virgin Islands, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (3), Fiji (2), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (5), United States (1: Virginia)
• Neogene of Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Brazil (5), Brunei Darussalam (1), Cuba (2), Czechia (1), the Dominican Republic (11), Haiti (3), Hungary (3), Iran (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (16), Mexico (3), Panama (5), Poland (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (6: Florida, Maryland, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Cuba (1)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1), Italy (1), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (1), United States (2: Alabama, Puerto Rico)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), France (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (3), Pakistan (7), Panama (1), Spain (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 159 collections including 201 occurrences