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