Persephona mediterranea

Persephona mediterranea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Leucosiidae
Genus:	Persephona
Species:	P. mediterranea
Binomial name
Persephona mediterranea (J. F. W. Herbst, 1794)

Persephona mediterranea, the mottled purse crab, is a species of true crab in the family Leucosiidae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean. ^[2]

References

1. "Persephona mediterranea Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
2. "Persephona mediterranea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-31.

Further reading

• Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). "Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 116, no. 1, 96-157.
• Williams, Austin B., Lawrence G. Abele, D. L. Felder, H. H. Hobbs Jr., R. B. Manning, et al. (1989). "Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Decapod Crustaceans". American Fisheries Society Special Publication 17, 77.