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DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

Decanet name details

Portunus (Xiphonectes) alcocki (Nobili, 1906)

208800 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208800)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Malacostraca
  7. Eumalacostraca
  8. Eucarida
  9. Decapoda
  10. Pleocyemata
  11. Brachyura
  12. Eubrachyura
  13. Heterotremata
  14. Portunoidea
  15. Portunidae
  16. Portuninae
  17. Portunus
  18. Portunus (Xiphonectes)
  19. Portunus (Xiphonectes) alcocki
 unaccepted > superseded combination
Incultus alcocki (Nobili, 1906)
Species
Portunus (Xiphonectes) A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 accepted as Xiphonectes A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Neptunus (Hellenus) alcocki Nobili, 1906) Nobili, G. (1906). Diagnoses préliminaires de 34 espèces et variétés nouvelles, et de 2 genres nouveaux de Décapodes de la Mer Rouge. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 6: 393-411 [published January 1906]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.4097 [details] OpenAccess publication
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Portunus (Xiphonectes) alcocki (Nobili, 1906). Accessed at: https://www.decanet.info/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208800 on 2026-09-23
Date
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by
1997-11-10 12:51:44Z
created
Fondo, Esther
1998-09-02 10:57:45Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-01-19 07:57:53Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2016-06-28 06:34:56Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2018-02-26 08:05:29Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-04-13 05:40:59Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-06-14 03:28:12Z
changed
Ahyong, Shane

original description (of Neptunus (Hellenus) alcocki Nobili, 1906) Nobili, G. (1906). Diagnoses préliminaires de 34 espèces et variétés nouvelles, et de 2 genres nouveaux de Décapodes de la Mer Rouge. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 6: 393-411 [published January 1906]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.4097 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Stephenson, W. (1972). An annotated checklist and key to the Indo-Pacific swimming crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae). <em>Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin.</em> 10: 1-64. [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Remark Known from a single male specimen from the Red Sea only <420>. [details]