Hong Kong Register of Marine Species - Xiphonectes longispinosus (Dana, 1852)

HKRMS taxon details

Xiphonectes longispinosus (Dana, 1852)

AphiaID

456151 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:456151)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Xiphonectes A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

Original name

Amphitrite longi-spinosa Dana, 1852

Synonymised names

Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus (Dana, 1852) · unaccepted > superseded combination

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Variety Xiphonectes longispinosus var. bidens (Laurie, 1906) accepted as Xiphonectes bidens (Laurie, 1906) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, &c. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes, U.S.N., including the Crustacea Cancroidea Corystoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. 6: 73-86. [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Xiphonectes longispinosus (Dana, 1852). Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2025) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456151 on 2026-02-17

Regional species database citation

Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2026). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Xiphonectes longispinosus (Dana, 1852). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456151 on 2026-02-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-02-11 09:42:42Z

created

Davie, Peter

2018-02-26 08:05:29Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

2022-04-13 09:06:31Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

2022-05-12 07:21:32Z

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Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description (of ) Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus crustaceorum, &c. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes, U.S.N., including the Crustacea Cancroidea Corystoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. 6: 73-86. [details]

new combination reference Spiridonov, V. A., Neretina, T. V. & Schepetov, D. (2014). Morphological characterization and molecular phylogeny of Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea Brachyura): Implications for understanding evolution of swimming capacity and revision of the family-level classification. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 253(5): 404–429., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2014.03.003 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus (Dana, 1852))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Xiphonectes longispinosus)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus (Dana, 1852))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (16 records) (from synonym Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus (Dana, 1852))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records) (from synonym Portunus (Xiphonectes) longispinosus (Dana, 1852))