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Callinectes pallidus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz (IEO-CSIC), Puerto Pesquero, Muelle de Levante s / n, 11006 Cádiz, Spain.
- 2. Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos s / n, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
- 3. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
- 4. Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN-CSIC), República Saharaui, 2, Puerto Real, 11519 Cádiz, Spain.
Description
Callinectes pallidus (de Rochebrune, 1883)
Fig. 62
Material examined
SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE − Sao Tomé Island • 1 ♂ (76.3×35.6), 1 ♀ (94×42.5); 1959; Santiago Vicente Peris and Julio Álvarez legs.; MNCN20.04/03200.
Remarks
The specimens were previously identified as C. marginatus. This work provides the first record of this species in waters of São Tomé and Príncipe.
For identification, see also Williams (1974) and Manning & Holthuis (1981).
Notes
Published as part of Muñoz, Isabel, García-Raso, J. Enrique, Chillón, Begoña Sánchez & Cuesta, Jose A., 2025, Marine crabs from African waters housed in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC): An opportunity for biogeographic and systematic studies. Part I: Heterotremata (Decapoda, Brachyura), pp. 1-94 in European Journal of Taxonomy 996 on page 57, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.996.2915, http://zenodo.org/record/15633323
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNCN
- Material sample ID
- MNCN20.04/03200
- Scientific name authorship
- de Rochebrune
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Callinectes
- Species
- pallidus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Callinectes pallidus (Rochebrune, 1883) sec. Muñoz, García-Raso, Chillón & Cuesta, 2025
References
- Williams A. B. 1974. The swimming crabs of the genus Callinectes (Decapoda Portunidae). Fishery Bulletin 72 (3): 685-798.
- Manning R. B. & Holthuis L. B. 1981. West African brachyuran crabs. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 306: 1-379. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.306