Kauaʻi record · KCA-CR-000119
Long-eyed swimming crab
Podophthalmus vigil
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About Long-eyed swimming crab
Podophthalmus vigil is a decapod crustacean in the family Portunidae. Its current scientific name is cited as Podophthalmus vigil (Fabricius, 1798). Published Kauaʻi evidence documents the species from Nawiliwili Harbor. Evidence types include earlier report. These records establish a documented Kauaʻi occurrence but are not automatically interpreted as a present-day abundance estimate. The documented Kauaʻi habitat context includes harbor / sheltered marine. Current island persistence, abundance, and population trend were not established by the occurrence material used for this record. The available Kauaʻi evidence does not support adding island-specific claims about diet, reproduction, behavior, population size, or trend unless those points are stated in the cited sources, so they are not inferred here. Keeping the accepted taxonomic concept together with the dated occurrence evidence allows later surveys to distinguish historical documentation from contemporary status.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Podophthalmus vigil
- Common names
- Long-eyed swimming crab
- Other names
- Podophthalmus vigil · Long-eyed swimming crab · crustacean · crustaceans · crab · crabs
- Family
- Portunidae
- Order
- Decapoda
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- confirmed by dated Kauaʻi occurrence evidence
- Origin
- not assigned here
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Long-eyed swimming crab has a published Kauaʻi occurrence entry for Nawiliwili Harbor in Coles et al. (2004), Bishop Museum Technical Report 29a, printed page 141. This is dated survey or collection evidence; current abundance and persistence were not established by this review.