PORTUNOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815

Muñoz, Isabel, García-Isarch, Eva & Cuesta, Jose A., 2021, Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the “ MOZAMBIQUE ” surveys, Zootaxa 5056 (1), pp. 1-67 : 39

Superfamily PORTUNOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815

According partially to WoRMS (2021) and following the last and more recent review by Spiridonov (2020), this superfamily comprises four families, Brusiniidae Števćić , Carcinidae MacLeay , Geryonidae Colosi , and Portunidae Rafinesque. Some taxa previously included in Portunoidea like families Polybiidae Ortmann , Thiidae Dana , or Ovalipidae Spiridonov , Neretina & Schepetov, are now placed as subfamilies Polibiinae and Thiinae (in Family Carcinidae ) and Ovalipiinae (in Family Geryonidae ).