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Swimming Crabs
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Swimming Crabs

Portunidae

Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.

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8 branches of this family, most-observed first

Portuninae

subfamilyPortuninae

Thalamitinae

subfamilyThalamitinae

Necronectinae

subfamilyNecronectinae

Achelouinae

subfamilyAchelouinae

Lupocyclinae

subfamilyLupocyclinae

Podophthalminae

subfamilyPodophthalminae

Carupinae

subfamilyCarupinae

Coelocarcininae

subfamilyCoelocarcininae

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49506.