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DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

Decanet taxon details

Achelous floridanus (Rathbun, 1930)

557882 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:557882)

  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. Achelouinae
  17. Achelous
  18. Achelous floridanus
accepted
Species
Achelous De Haan, 1833
Portunus (Achelous) floridanus Rathbun, 1930 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Portunus (Achelous) floridanus Rathbun, 1930) Rathbun, M.J. (1930). The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae, and Xanthidae. <em>United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 152: 1-609, Pls. 1–230., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.152.i [details] Available for editors  PDF available
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m)  
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Achelous floridanus (Rathbun, 1930). Accessed at: https://decanet.info/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=557882 on 2026-08-12
Date
action
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2011-01-05 08:26:45Z
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Davie, Peter
2022-04-12 08:25:46Z
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De Grave, Sammy

original description (of Portunus (Achelous) floridanus Rathbun, 1930) Rathbun, M.J. (1930). The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae, and Xanthidae. <em>United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 152: 1-609, Pls. 1–230., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.152.i [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) [details]

Habitat Soft bottom (mud or sand) [details]
    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) 
To CRUSTA 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Achelous floridanus) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (29 records) (from synonym Portunus (Achelous) floridanus Rathbun, 1930)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records) (from synonym Portunus (Achelous) floridanus Rathbun, 1930)