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Callinectes larvatus Ordway 1863

Description

Callinectes larvatus Ordway, 1863

Material examined (N=58). 2m, 06–07/VI/2000 (MZUESC #59); 1f, 18/IX/2000, 13°52’37”S / 38°57’11”W (MZUESC #62).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (from Pará to São Paulo) (Melo 1996; Barros et al. 1997a).

Ecological notes. On sand and mud bottoms and in mangroves, also in brackish water. Rarely in the open sea. Shallow waters to 25 m (Melo 1996).

Previous records in Bahia. Smith (1869), Moreira (1901) [as C. marginatus A. Milne Edwards, 1861)], Rathbun (1930) (as C. marginatus), Williams (1974) (as C. marginatus), Melo (1985), Almeida et al. (2006).

Notes

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 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ordway
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Portunidae
Genus
Callinectes
Species
larvatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Callinectes larvatus Ordway, 1863 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.
  • Barros, M. P., Pimentel, F. R. & Silva, S. B. (1997 a) Novos registros de Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) para o litoral do Estado do Para, Brasil. Nauplius, 5 (2), 161 - 163.
  • Smith, S. I. (1869) Notice of the Crustacea collected by Prof. C. F. Hartt on the coast of Brazil in 1867. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2, 1 - 41.
  • Moreira, C. (1901) Contribuicoes para o conhecimento da fauna brasileira. Crustaceos do Brazil. Archivos do Museu Nacional, 11, 1 - 151.
  • 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.
  • Williams, A. B. (1974) The swimming crabs of the genus Callinectes (Decapoda, Portunidae). Fishery Bulletin, 72 (3), 685 - 798.
  • Melo, G. A. S. (1985) Taxonomia e padroes distribucionais e ecologicos dos Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) do litoral sudeste do Brasil. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 216 pp.
  • Almeida, A. O., Coelho, P. A., Santos, J. T. A. & Ferraz, N. R. (2006) Crustaceos decapodos estuarinos de Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil. Biota Neotropica, 6 (2), (http: // www. biotaneotropica. org. br / v 6 n 2 / pt / abstract? inventory + bn 03406022006)