Definition of Family Portunidae

1. Noun. Swimming crabs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Portunidae

family Polemoniaceae
family Polyangiaceae
family Polygalaceae
family Polygonaceae
family Polynemidae
family Polyodontidae
family Polypedatidae
family Polypodiaceae
family Polyporaceae
family Pomacentridae
family Pomatomidae
family Pongidae
family Pontederiaceae
family Porcellionidae
family Portulacaceae
family Portunidae (current term)
family Potamogalidae
family Potamogetonaceae
family Priacanthidae
family Primulaceae
family Pristidae
family Procaviidae
family Procellariidae
family Procyonidae
family Proteaceae
family Proteidae
family Prunellidae
family Pseudococcidae
family Pseudomonodaceae
family Psilophytaceae

Literary usage of Family Portunidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"The family Portunidae, or the swimming crabs, have, with one exception, the last pair of legs developed into a swimming ..."

2. The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes: Being by John Stanley Gardiner (1903)
"PORTUN ID AE (SWIMMING CRABS). 1. General. The family Portunidae are distinguished from the rest of the round-fronted ..."

3. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1871)
"It is common around India, Australia, and the Phillipine Islands, and is a member of the family Portunidae. Among the fishes found in the gulf-weed, ..."

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