Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae

Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1920. Additions to West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58:381-384

Belongs to Portunus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Collins and Morris 1976, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1920 and Varela and Rojas-Consuegra 2009

Sister taxa: Portunus (Lupocycloporus), Portunus (Monomia), Portunus (Portunus), Portunus alphonsei, Portunus arcuatus, Portunus arcuatusdup, Portunus atecuicitlis, Portunus brouweri, Portunus catalanicus, Portunus catalaunicus, Portunus delgadoi, Portunus edwardsi, Portunus gabbi, Portunus gallicus, Portunus haitensis, Portunus hastatus, Portunus incertus, Portunus incertusdup, Portunus jurensis, Portunus kisslingi, Portunus kochi, Portunus krambergeri, Portunus larteti, Portunus levigatus, Portunus miocaenicus, Portunus miyaku, Portunus monspeliensis, Portunus neogenicus, Portunus obtusus, Portunus obvallatus, Portunus oligocenicus, Portunus pelagicus, Portunus pirabaensis, Portunus pusillinus, Portunus radobojanus, Portunus regulensis, Portunus ristorii, Portunus rudianus, Portunus sanshianus, Portunus sijuensis, Portunus spinimanus, Portunus stenaspis, Portunus straeleni, Portunus suessi, Portunus suessidup, Portunus tenuis, Portunus thalae, Portunus tongfai, Portunus vectensis, Portunus viai, Portunus vicentinus, Portunus vicentinusdup, Portunus withersi, Portunus woodwardi, Portunus wynneanus, Portunus xantusii, Portunus yaucoensis, Lupa gibbesii, Lupa sayi, Lupa spinimana, Lupa dicantha

Type specimen: USNM 328229, a carapace. Its type locality is USGS 8522, Cercado de Mao, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in the Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

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