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Charybdis
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Charybdis

Charybdis is a genus of swimming crabs in the family Portunidae; "Charybdis" is Greek for whirlpool.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Charybdis

subgenusCharybdis

Archias

subgenusArchias

Gonioneptunus

subgenusGonioneptunus

Charybdis hoplites

speciesCharybdis hoplites

Charybdis hongkongensis

speciesCharybdis hongkongensis

Charybdis rostrata

speciesCharybdis rostrata

Charybdis goaensis

speciesCharybdis goaensis

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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 121452.