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Portunus anceps Saussure 1858

Description

Portunus anceps (Saussure, 1858)

Material examined (N=3). 2m, 24/IV/2005, St. 0 2 (MZUESC #689).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, North Carolina, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, and Brazil (from Amapá to Rio de Janeiro) (Melo 1996). Central Atlantic – Ascension (Manning & Chace 1990). Ecological notes. On sand, mud, shell, algae, and rock bottoms. From 14 to 125 m (Melo 1996). Previous records in Bahia. A. Milne Edwards (1879) (as Neptunus sulcatus A. Milne Edwards, 1879), Rathbun (1930), Barreto et al. (1993), Almeida et al. (2007).

Other

Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Portunidae
Genus
Portunus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Saussure
Species
anceps
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Portunus anceps Saussure, 1858 sec. Almeida, Guerrazzi & Coelho, 2007

References

  • Melo, G. A. S. (1996) Manual de identificacao dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do litoral Brasileiro. Editora Pleiade, Sao Paulo, 603 pp.
  • Manning, R. B & Chace, Jr., F. A. (1990) Decapod and Stomatopod Crustacea from Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 503, 1 - 91.
  • Milne Edwards, A. (1879) Etudes sur les Crustaces Podophthalmaires de la region mexicaine. Recherches Zoologiques pour Servir a l'Histoire de la Faune de l'Amerique Centrale et du Mexique, 5, 185 - 264.
  • Rathbun, M. J. (1930) The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 152, 1 - 609.
  • Barreto, A. V., Coelho, P. A. & Ramos-Porto, M. (1993) Distribuicao geografica dos Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) coletados na plataforma continental do Norte e Nordeste do Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 10 (4), 641 - 656.
  • Almeida, A. O., Coelho, P. A., Santos, J. T. A. & Ferraz, N. R. (2007) Crustaceos estomatopodos e decapodos da costa de Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil. Atlantica, 29 (1).