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Portunus is a genus of crab which includes several important species for fisheries, such as the blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus and the Gazami crab, P. trituberculatus. Other species, such as the three-spotted crab ( P. sanguinolentus) are caught as bycatch.
The genus Portunus contains more than 90 extant species and over 40 further species known only from fossils.
Fossils of crabs within this genus can be found in sediment of Europe, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and Australia from Paleogene to recent (age range: 48.6 to 0.0 million years ago).
The extant species are as follows:
Species
Authority
Date
Subgenus
Portunus aburatsubo
1922
Lupocycloporus
Portunus acerbiterminalis
1967
Xiphonectes
Portunus acuminatus
1871
Portunus
Portunus affinis
1893
Portunus
Portunus alcocki
1905
Xiphonectes
Portunus anceps
1858
Portunus
Portunus andersoni
1887
Xiphonectes
Portunus angustus
1898
Achelous
Portunus arabicus
1905
Xiphonectes
Portunus argentatus
1861
Monomia
Portunus armatus
1861
Portunus
Portunus asper
1861
Portunus
Portunus australiensis
1973
Monomia
Portunus brevimanus
1895
Achelous
Portunus brockii
1887
Xiphonectes
Portunus convexus
1835
Portunus
Portunus curvipenis
1961
Monomia
Portunus dayawanensis
1986
Xiphonectes
Portunus depressiformis
1859
Achelous
Portunus dubius
1906
Achelous
Portunus elongatus
1861
Achelous
Portunus euglyphus
1906
Monomia
Portunus floridanus
1930
Achelous
Portunus gibbesii
1859
Portunus
Portunus gladiator
1798
Monomia
Portunus gracilimanus
1858
Lupocycloporus
Portunus gracillimus
1858
Xiphonectes
Portunus granulatus
1834
Achelous
Portunus guaymasensis
1966
Achelous
Portunus guinotae
1961
Xiphonectes
Portunus hainanensis
1986
Xiphonectes
Portunus hastatoides
1798
Xiphonectes
Portunus hastatus
1767
Portunus
Portunus inaequalis
1881
Portunus
Portunus innominatus
1909
Lupocycloporus
Portunus iranjae
1962
Xiphonectes
Portunus iridescens
1894
Achelous
Portunus isolamargaritensis
1968
Achelous
Portunus laevis
1861
Lupocycloporus
Portunus latibrachium
1906
Xiphonectes
Portunus lecromi
1996
Monomia
Portunus longispinosus
1852
Xiphonectes
Portunus macrophthalmus
1906
Xiphonectes
Portunus madagascariensis
1877
Portunus
Portunus mariei
1957
Xiphonectes
Portunus mauricianus
1942
Portunus
Portunus minimus
1898
Portunus
Portunus minutus
1937
Lupocycloporus
Portunus mokyevskii
1970
Portunus
Portunus octodentatus
1938
Achelous
Portunus orbicularis
1880
Achelous
Portunus orbitosinus
1911
Achelous
Portunus ordwayi
1860
Achelous
Portunus paralatibrachium
2002
Xiphonectes
Portunus pelagicus
1758
Portunus
Portunus petreus
1899
Monomia
Portunus ponticus
1798
Monomia
Portunus pseudoargentatus
1961
Monomia
Portunus pseudohastatoides
2006
Xiphonectes
Portunus pseudotenuipes
1999
Xiphonectes
Portunus pubescens
1852
Portunus
Portunus pulchricristatus
1931
Xiphonectes
Portunus reticulatus
1799
Portunus
Portunus reufiarcus
1987
Portunus
Portunus rubromarginatus
1900
Monomia
Portunus rufiremus
1959
Portunus
Portunus rugosus
1861
Xiphonectes
Portunus samoensis
1939
Monomia
Portunus sanguinolentus
1783
Portunus
Portunus sayi
1850
Portunus
Portunus sebae
1834
Achelous
Portunus segnis
1775
Portunus
Portunus serratifrons
1865
Portunus
Portunus sinusodactylus
1967
Lupocycloporus
Portunus spinicarpus
1871
Achelous
Portunus spiniferus
1967
Xiphonectes
Portunus spinimanus
1819
Achelous
Portunus spinipes
1886
Xiphonectes
Portunus stanfordi
1902
Achelous
Portunus stephensoni
1981
Xiphonectes
Portunus suborbicularis
1975
Achelous
Portunus tenuicaudatus
1961
Xiphonectes
Portunus tenuipes
1835
Xiphonectes
Portunus tridentatus
1979
Xiphonectes
Portunus trilobatus
1972
Xiphonectes
Portunus trituberculatus
1876
Portunus
Portunus tuberculatus
1860
Achelous
Portunus tuberculosus
1861
Xiphonectes
Portunus tweediei
1937
Xiphonectes
Portunus ventralis
1879
Portunus
Portunus wilsoni
1981
Lupocycloporus
Portunus xantusii
1860
Portunus
Portunus yoronensis
1974
Achelous
Usage examples of "portunus".
For incontinent came the daughters of Nereus, singing with tunes melodiously : Portunus with his bristled and rough beard, Salita with her bosome full of fish, Palemon the driver of the Dolphine, the Trumpetters of Tryton, leaping hither and thither, and blowing with heavenly noyse : such was the company which followed Venus, marching towards the ocean sea.
Master Portunus, fiddler to his Majesty the Emperor of the Moon, jester-in-chief to the Lord of Ghosts and Shadows.
And the professor sprang up at least three feet in the air, and landed on the tips of his toes, as light as a ball of thistledown, while Master Portunus stood rubbing his hands, and chuckling with senile glee.
And he and Portunus dug each other in the ribs and laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks.
At last, pulling himself together, the Professor bade Portunus tune up his fiddle, and requested that the young ladies should form up into two lines for the first dance.
At that moment Portunus began to tune his fiddle again, and Professor Wisp called out to them to form up again in two rows.
Hazel the one consecutive sentence that Portunus had managed to enunciate.
If Portunus were, indeed, Diggory Carp, then these stubble-fields and vineyards, these red and golden trees, would be robbed of their peace and stability.
Whether Portunus were the ghost of Diggory Carp or merely a doited old weaver, he evidently knew something that he wanted to communicate -- and it was connected with the orchard herm.
And now the claret-coloured background was turning into a red field -- a field of red flowers, from which leered Portunus, and among which wept Ranulph.
Master Portunus, fiddler to his Majesty the Emperor of the Moon, jester-in-chief to the Lord of Ghosts and Shadows .