Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896

Coelho, Petrônio Alves, Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda, 2008, Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 1956 (1), pp. 1-58 : 29

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1956.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5242329

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D3C31E-FF85-FFEE-FF67-FC4C6D57FBFE

treatment provided by

Felipe (2021-08-21 23:55:29, last updated by Plazi 2023-11-04 07:14:51)

scientific name

Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896
status

 

Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 View in CoL

Western Atlantic: Massachusetts southwards, Central America, West Indies, Venezuela, Brazil to Argentina (Buenos Aires province). Eastern Atlantic: Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Black seas. Western Pacific: Japan ( Williams 1984; Melo 1996).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: AL: Coelho et al. (1990); BA: Rathbun (1896), as C. sapidus acutidens Rathbun, 1896 .

Melo, G. A. S. (1996) Manual de identificacao dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do litoral brasileiro. Editora Pleiade, Sao Paulo, 603 pp.

Rathbun, M. J. (1896) The genus Callinectes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 18, 349 - 375.

Williams, A. B. (1984) Shrimps, Lobsters and Crabs of the Atlantic coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 550 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Portunidae

Genus

Callinectes