| NOUN | animal | Portunidae, family Portunidae | swimming crabs |
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| Meaning | swimming crabs. | |
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| Synonym | family Portunidae | |
| Member of | Brachyura, suborder Brachyura | An order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface |
| Members | Callinectes, genus Callinectes | New World blue crabs |
| Ovalipes, genus Ovalipes | A genus of Portunidae | |
| Portunus, genus Portunus | type genus of the family Portunidae | |
| swimming crab | marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming | |
| Broader | arthropod family | Any of the arthropods |
| Spanish | familia Portunidae, Portunidae | |
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