Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815 Callinectes amnicola (De Rochebrune, 1883) —CVI Guinot & Ribeiro (1962, as C. latimanus); inshore estuarine—Benthic, 0– 30 m. TSEA. Callinectes marginatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) —CVI A. Milne-Edwards (1878, as C. africanus [var. de diacanthus]); shallow waters—Benthic. TSEA. Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818) —CNI González et al. (2017a); 2–10 m—CVI A. Milne-Edwards (1869, as Goniosoma milleri); 2.5–20 m—Benthic, 5– 69 m. PANT. Laleonectes vocans (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878) —CNI González (1995, as Portunus sp.); 5–10 m—CVI typelocality (as Neptunus vocans); 5–6 m—Benthic, 6– 37 m. AAWA. Portunus (Portunus) hastatus (Linnaeus, 1767) —CNI Brullé (1839, as Lupa hastata); 2–60 m—CVI Fransen (1991); 20–40 m—Benthic. TSEA. Portunus (Portunus) inaequalis (Miers, 1881) —CNI González (2016); 8–12 m—CVI Monod (1956, as Neptunus inaequalis); 4–15 m—Benthic, 4– 73 m. TSEA. ? Sanquerus validus (Herklots, 1851) —CVI González et al. (2004, as Portunus validus); 150–280 m (three specimens lost during the sinking of R / V “Taliarte”)—Benthic, 3–55 m. TSEA. Thalamita poissonii (Audouin, 1826) —CNI Brullé (1839, as T. admete); 0.5–120 m—CVI Guinot & Ribeiro (1962, as T. africana); 2–8 m—Benthic, 0.5– 20 m. PANT.

Published as part of González, José A., 2018, Checklists of Crustacea Decapoda from the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, with an assessment of Macaronesian and Cape Verde biogeographic marine ecoregions, pp. 401-448 in Zootaxa 4413 (3) on page 427, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3769606