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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Arthropoda (phylum)  »  Malacostraca (class)  »  Decapoda (order)  »  Portunidae (family)

CAAB Code:	28 911005 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Portunus armatus   (A. Milne Edwards, 1861)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 911 Portunidae (swimmer crabs) - show full list Common Name (AS5300): Blue Swimmer Crab Common Names List: blue swimmer crab blue swimming crab sand crab Organism Type: a crab Synonyms: Portunus pelagicus Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Coastal (0-40m) Parent Codes: 28 911922     Portunus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 00 702003, 702003

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Occurrence locations [276] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Taxon Notes:

This species, which is commercially important in most Australian mainland states, was previously known as Portunus pelagicus, and is part of the P. pelagicus species complex widespread in the Indo-Pacific region. This complex has recently been shown to be four separate species, see Lai, Ng & Davie, 2010. This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 702003 (FISHLIST 702003).

Identifiers:

AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:d12568b0-4a0b-46c2-8340-7bf38082df89 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia Cleveland K2041230 ITIS 199965 View at ITIS MoV 739 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:442803 Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2022-04-14 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Images:

Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-04595 CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200705_188_055 Survey: SS200705 [details] Date: 07-July-2007 Position: -12.445° 123.601° Depth: 95.3 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)

Record source:	Ng, P.K.L., 1998. Crabs. In: Carpenter, K.E. Niem, V.H., Editors, FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific., 2: 1045-1155. FAO, Rome
Scientific Name verified against:	Lai, J.C.Y., Ng, P.K.L., Davie, P.J.F., 2010. A revision of the Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758) species complex (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae), with the recognition of four species., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 58(2): 199-237.