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Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning 1987

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Genus Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987

Type species. Opecarcinus hypostegus (Shaw & Hopkins, 1977) [Type locality: Florida Middle Ground, west of Tarpon Springs, Gulf of Mexico].

Remarks. Opecarcinus hypostegus is the only Atlantic species of its genus. The remaining eight species in Opecarcinus are Indo-West Pacific in distribution (Kropp 1989; Meij 2014b). Xu et al. (2021) estimated that Opecarcinus harbors about 15 undescribed species and several potential species complexes.

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Published as part of In, First Published, 2022, Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 5146 on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E3878AA828FFF604F488EEFBEFFE7B

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7626155 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFDAFFF2A878FFA604638879FFE8FFD9 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/52C3E5E3-80B6-49DB-BC9C-194560D491F7 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03E3878AA828FFF604F488EEFBEFFE7B (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/209289742 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/53704/taxon/03E3878AA828FFF604F488EEFBEFFE7B.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Cryptochiridae
Genus
Opecarcinus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kropp & Manning
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Opecarcinus Kropp, 1987 sec. In, 2022

References

  • Kropp, R. K. & Manning, R. B. (1987) The Atlantic gall crabs Family Cryptochiridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 462, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.462
  • Shaw, J. K. & Hopkins, T. S. (1977) The Distribution of the Family Hapalocarcinidae (Decapoda, Brachyura) on the Florida Middle Ground with a Description of Pseudocryplochirus hypostegus New Species. Proceedings of the Third International Coral Reef Symposium, Miami, 1, pp. 177 - 183, figs. 1 - 3.
  • Kropp, R. K. (1989) A revision of the Pacific species of gall crabs, genus Opecarcinus (Crustacea: Cryptochiridae). Bulletin of Marine Science, 45 (1), 98 - 129.
  • Meij, S. E. T. van der (2014 b) A new species of Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Cryptochiridae) associated with the stony corals Pavona clavus (Dana, 1846) and P. bipartita Nemenzo, 1980 (Scleractinia: Agariciidae). Zootaxa, 3869 (1), 44 - 52 https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3869.1.4
  • Xu, T., Bravo. H., Paulay, G. & Meiji, S. E. T. van der (2021) Diversification and distribution of gall crabs (Brachyura: Cryptochiridae: Opecarcinus) associated with Agariciidae corals. Coral Reefs, 1 - 11. [not numbered] https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00338 - 021 - 02163 - 1