Persephona mediterranea Herbst 1794 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae

Alternative combination: Cancer mediterraneus

Full reference: J. F. W. Herbst. 1794. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten, Zweiter Band, Heft 5 147-162

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

See also Herbst 1794 and Luque et al. 2017

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

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

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

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