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Arenaeus
Arenaeus cribrarius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Portunidae
Subfamily:	Portuninae
Genus:	Arenaeus Dana, 1851

Arenaeus is a genus of swimming crabs in the family Portunidae. There are at least two described species in Arenaeus.

Species

These two species belong to the genus Arenaeus:

• Arenaeus cribrarius (Lamarck, 1818) (speckled swimming crab)
• Arenaeus mexicanus (Gerstaecker, 1856)

References

1. "Arenaeus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
2. "Arenaeus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. "Arenaeus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Further reading

• Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). "Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 96–157. ISSN 0006-324X.

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