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- flattened legs that resemble paddles. However, in contrast to another portunid crab (Scylla serrata), they cannot survive for long periods out of the...
- important species black crab (Scylla serrata) and Scylla paramamosain. Portunid crabs are characterised by the flattening of the fifth pair of legs into...
- generalist predator. The chief food source for this octopus is the deep-sea portunid crab Bathynectes piperitus. Other major prey items include the Cape hagfish...
- and mammals. In the ocean, predators of the loggerhead juveniles include portunid crabs and various fishes, such as parrotfishes and moray eels. Adults are...
- amphipods(particularly Parathemisto gaudichaudii) and percophidids. Crabs such as the portunid crab Nectocarcinus bennetti are also important prey. These prey items imply...
- crab family Portunidae. The genus Callinectes is distinguished from other portunid crabs by the lack of an internal cartilaginous spine on the carpus (the...
- typically they do not. They tend to feed on small crustaceans including portunid and calappid crabs by groping and pouncing on small rocks and clusters...
- Roy E. (1985). "Lift based mechanisms for swimming in eurypterids and portunid crabs". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society...
- other species, including fishes, spider crabs, shrimp, phyllosoma larvae, portunid crabs, and amphipods. A commensal relationship with the copepod species...
- ISBN 978-0-395-97516-9. William S. Johnson & Dennis M. Allen (2005). "Swimming (Portunid) crabs". Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: a guide to their...