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Swimming Crabs and Allies
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Swimming Crabs and Allies

Portunoidea

Portunoidea is a superfamily of crabs that includes the family Portunidae, the swimming crabs. Which other crab families are also placed here is a matter of some contention, and may be revised following molecular phylogenetic analyses.

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5 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Swimming Crabs

familyPortunidae

Carcinidae

familyCarcinidae

Geryonidae

familyGeryonidae

Nautilocorystidae

familyNautilocorystidae

Brusiniidae

familyBrusiniidae

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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 49505.