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Carcinidae
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Carcinidae

Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs. Its members include well-known shoreline crabs such as the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) and velvet crab (Necora puber).

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Carcininae

subfamilyCarcininae

Polybiinae

subfamilyPolybiinae

Platyonichinae

subfamilyPlatyonichinae

Pirimelinae

subfamilyPirimelinae

Thiinae

subfamilyThiinae

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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 773604.