Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Portunus

Portunus longispinosus (Dana, 1852)


Selected Reference(s)
Portunus (Hellenus) longispinosus. - Holthuis, L. B., 1953a: 7. - French Polynesia
Portunus longispinosus. - Stephenson, W., 1976: 16. - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Marquesas (Hiva Oa, Tahuata); Society (Tahiti); Tuamotu (Marutea South, Raroia) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m.

Regional Records: Neptunus (Hellenus) longispinosus - Nobili, 1907: 383 (Marutea South). - Portunus (Hellenus) longispinosus - Holthuis, 1953: 7 (Raroia). - Morrison, 1954: 8 (Raroia). - Portunus longispinosus - Forest & Guinot, 1962: 58 (Biogeography "Tahiti-Tuamotu"). - Stephenson, 1976: 16 ("Marquesas expedition st. THX, haul 5" = Haava strait, between Tahuata and Hiva Oa, cf. Rehder, 1967). - Crosnier, 2002: 410 (Remarks about sp. recorded by Stephenson, 1976). - Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus - Guinot, 1985: 449 (List). - Poupin, 1996a: 32 (Checklist) - Relevant material - Portunus cf. longispinosus - Coll. P. Frouin, det. J. Poupin (Tahiti). - Remark: This species can be confused with all the species belonging to the longispinosus complex, as Portunus iranjae and P. macrophthalmus (cf. Stephenson & Rees, 1967; Stephenson, 1976; Nagai, 1981; Crosnier 2002).

References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) - PDF 412 Ko
Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/