Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the “ MOZAMBIQUE ” surveys
Author
Muñoz, Isabel
0000-0003-1055-0754
eli.munoz@ieo.es
Author
García-Isarch, Eva
0000-0003-3027-382X
eva.garcia@ieo.es
Author
Cuesta, Jose A.
0000-0001-9482-2336
jose.cuesta@icman.csic.es
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-19
5056
1
1
67
journal article
3930
10.11646/zootaxa.5056.1.1
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1175-5326
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Superfamily
PORTUNOIDEA
Rafinesque, 1815
According partially to WoRMS (2021) and following the last and more recent review by
Spiridonov (2020)
, this superfamily comprises four families,
Brusiniidae Števćić
,
Carcinidae MacLeay
,
Geryonidae Colosi
, and
Portunidae Rafinesque. Some
taxa previously included in
Portunoidea
like families
Polybiidae Ortmann
,
Thiidae Dana
, or
Ovalipidae Spiridonov
, Neretina & Schepetov, are now placed as subfamilies Polibiinae and Thiinae (in Family
Carcinidae
) and
Ovalipiinae
(in Family
Geryonidae
).