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Portunidae
Liocarcinus marmoreus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Portunoidea
Family: Portunidae
Rafinesque, 1815
Genera

approx. 28; see text

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Portunidae

Portunidae is the family containing the swimming crabs. It includes many well-known shoreline crabs, such as the European shore crab, blue crab, velvet crab and lady crab. Two genera in the family are contrastingly named Scylla and Charybdis (see Scylla and Charybdis).

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