Planes major (MacLeay, 1838)

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 : 39

Planes major (MacLeay, 1838)

Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico to Argentina. Central Atlantic: Saint Helena I. Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands, Morocco, and South Africa. Eastern Pacific: California to the Straits of Magellan, including Galápagos. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific ( Melo 1996, as P. cyaneus Dana, 1851 ; Prado & Melo 2002, as P. cyaneus ).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: PA: Martinelli & Isaac (2001), as P. cyaneus ; CE: Fausto Filho (1968), as P.minutus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; PE: Coelho & Ramos (1972), as P. minutus ; BA: Prado & Melo (2002), as P. cyaneus ;.