Panopeus herbstii H. Milne Edwards 1834
Description
Panopeus herbstii H. Milne Edwards, 1834
Panopeus herbstii H. Milne Edwards, 1834: 403.
Material examined. None.
Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Massachusetts to Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Caribbean Sea, north of South America, and Brazil (Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina) (Rathbun 1930; Coelho & Ramos 1972; Powers 1977; Williams 1983, 1984).
Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include “Piassaguera, Santos” as forma obesa (Rathbun 1930), probably a spelling mistake of Piaçaguera, a locality close to Cubatão. Initially, Panopeus herbstii was recognized as four forms, being herbstii the typical form; another occurrence on the Brazilian coast included forma crassa, not the typical one (Rathbun 1930). Posteriorly, these taxa were elevated to full species status and only P. lacustris and P. austrobesus, which included crassa and obesa varieties, occur in Brazil (Williams 1983). It seems that the relationship among species attributed to the genus Panopeus is unclear (Thoma et al. 2014). Thus, we conjecture that the occurrence of this species in São Paulo, or even in Brazil, was confused with the other forms or varieties.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- H. Milne Edwards
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Panopeidae
- Genus
- Panopeus
- Species
- herbstii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Panopeus herbstii Edwards, 1834 sec. Mantelatto, Tamburus, Magalhães, Buranelli, Terossi, Negri, Castilho, Costa & Zara, 2020
References
- Milne Edwards, H. (1834) Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Vol. 1. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 468 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 6234
- 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. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.152. i
- Coelho, P. A. & Ramos, M. (1972) A constituicao e a distribuicao da fauna de decapodos do litoral leste da America do Sul entre as latitudes 5 ° N e 39 ° S. Trabalhos Oceanograficos da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 13, 133 - 236. https: // doi. org / 10.5914 / tropocean. v 13 i 1.2555
- Powers, L. W. (1977) A catalogue and bibliography to the crabs (Brachyura) of the Gulf of Mexico. Contributions in Marine Science, 20, 1 - 190.
- Williams, A. B. (1983) The mud crab, Panopeus herbstii, sl. partition into six species (Decapoda: Xanthidae). Fishery Bulletin, 81 (4), 863 - 882.
- Williams, A. B. (1984) Shrimps, lobsters, and crabs of the Altantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 550 pp.
- Thoma, B. P., Guinot, D. & Felder, D. L. (2014) Evolutionary relationships among American mud crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial markers, with comments on adult morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170, 86 - 109. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zoj. 12093