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DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

WoRMS taxon details

Achelous affinis Faxon, 1893

451835  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:451835)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Brachyura (Infraorder)
  12. Eubrachyura (Section)
  13. Heterotremata (Subsection)
  14. Portunoidea (Superfamily)
  15. Portunidae (Family)
  16. Achelouinae (Subfamily)
  17. Achelous (Genus)
  18. Achelous affinis (Species)
accepted
Species
Portunus (Portunus) affinis (Faxon, 1893) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Portunus affinis (Faxon, 1893) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Faxon, W. (1893). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer ”Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. VI. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 24(7): 149-220. [details]  OpenAccess publication 
DecaNet eds. (2024). DecaNet. Achelous affinis Faxon, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=451835 on 2024-07-04
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2010-02-10 15:10:57Z
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Davie, Peter
2010-02-25 15:41:33Z
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Davie, Peter
2018-02-26 08:05:29Z
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De Grave, Sammy
2021-01-06 05:41:00Z
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Ahyong, Shane

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original description Faxon, W. (1893). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer ”Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. VI. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 24(7): 149-220. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

new combination reference Mantelatto, F. L.; Robles, R.; Wehrtmann, I. S.; Schubart, C. D.; Felder, D. L. (2018). New insights into the molecular phylogeny of the swimming crabs of the genera Portunus Weber, 1795 and Achelous De Haan, 1833 (Brachyura: Portunidae) of the Americas. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 38(2): 190–197., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/rux119 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Achelous affinis) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (11 records) (from synonym Portunus (Portunus) affinis (Faxon, 1893))