Bathynectes maravigna

Bathynectes maravigna, the deepsea swimming crab, is a deep-sea species of portunoid crab found in the North Atlantic.

Bathynectes maravigna
Preserved specimen collected from Madeira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Polybiidae
Genus:	Bathynectes
Species:	B. maravigna
Binomial name
Bathynectes maravigna (Prestandrea, 1839)

Classification

Bathynectes maravigna was first described in 1839 in the genus Portunus by Nicolo Prestandrea, and several species described later by other authors have since been synonymized with B. maravigna.^[1]

It is sometimes commonly known as the "deepsea swimming crab".^[2]

Distribution

Bathynectes maravigna is a North Atlantic species found on both the east and west coasts of that part of the ocean. It is found from the American state of Massachusetts south to Florida on the west coast and from around Iceland, the Faroe islands and Norway south to around Morocco on the east coast, as well as throughout the Mediterranean.^[3]

Further reading

• Original description (in Italian)