Portunus

After Latin Portunus (Portunes, Portumnes), the Roman god of harbors and ports.

Portunus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Portunidae – certain swimming crabs.

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Malacostraca - class; Eumalacostraca - subclass; Eucarida - superorder; Decapoda - order; Pleocyemata - suborder; Brachyura - infraorder; Eubrachyura - section; Heterotremata - subsection; Portunoidea - superfamily; Portunidae - family; Portuninae - subfamily

• (genus): Portunus anceps, Portunus pelagicus, Portunus trituberculatus, Portunus ventralis (selected species); for other species see Portunus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Portunus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Portunus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Portunus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Portunus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Portunus at Encyclopedia of Life
• Portunus on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Portunus at World Register of Marine Species

• Portumnus

Ultimately from portus (“harbor”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /porˈtuː.nus/, [pɔrˈtuː.nʊs]

Portūnus m sg (genitive Portūnī); second declension

1. a minor Roman god, protector of harbors, also called Palaemon

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Portūnālis
• Portūnālia

• Portunus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Portunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette