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family Portunidae - swimming crabs

arthropod family - any of the arthropods

Brachyura, suborder Brachyura - an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface

swimming crab - marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming

genus Portunus, Portunus - type genus of the family Portunidae

genus Ovalipes, Ovalipes - a genus of Portunidae

Callinectes, genus Callinectes - New World blue crabs

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Fishery appraisal of family Portunidae Portunus spp.

FISHERY STOCK ASSESSMENT OF MEGALASPIS CORDYLA BY USING NON-EQUILIBRIUM SURPLUS PRODUCTION MODELS IN THE ARABIAN SEA COAST OF PAKISTAN

The largest male and female brachyuran species were both from the family Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815, with the male mud crab Scylla serrata (Forskal, 1775), caught at Iriomote Island, Japan, being the largest male ([CW.sub.max] = 193.5 mm) (Ogawa et al.

ON TYPES OF SEXUAL MATURITY IN BRACHYURANS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SIZE AT THE ONSET OF SEXUAL MATURITY

Family Portunidae contribute 9 species while 5 species were belonging each to families Grapsidae and Xanthidae.

Checklist of benthic marine macrophytes and macrofauna from Uran coast, Navi Mumbai, off the Arabian Sea

Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758) is portunid crab belonging to family Portunidae and this group of family and commonly known as blue swimming crabs (Stephenson, 1972; Carpenter et al., 1997) or flower crab (Carpenter and Niem, 1998) due to the appearance.

Stock Assessment of Blue Swimming Crab Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Pakistani Waters (Northern, Arabian Sea)

The androdioecious barnacle Octolasmis warwickii Gray, 1825 has two types of sexual expression (Yusa et al., 2010): 1) as a hermaphrodite, attached directly to a host crab (mainly of the family Portunidae), or 2) as a dwarf male, attached to the scutum of a large hermaphrodite, and maturing as male at smaller sizes than the hermaphrodites.

Plastic sexual expression in the androdioecious barnacle Octolasmis warwickii (Cirripedia: pedunculata)

Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802 Superfamily Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 Family Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815 Callinectes bocourti A.

Decapod crustaceans in fresh waters of southeastern Bahia, Brazil