Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection Heterotremata > Superfamily Portunoidea > Family Polybiidae > Genus Polybius

Polybius pusillus (Leach, 1816)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polybius*	Leach, 1820	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Liocarcinus pusillus*	(Leach, 1816)	synonym
*Portunus pusillus*	Leach, 1816	synonym

Literature

basis of record	d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Paris. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
new combination reference	García-Raso, E.; d'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Moukrim, A.; Schubart, C.D.; Cuesta, J.A. (2024). A new cryptic species of Polybiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunoidea) from the East Atlantic, with considerations on the genus Polybius. European Journal of Taxonomy. 930: 277-313.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Polybius pusillus (Leach, 1816). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151200