Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850)

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

Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850)

Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Massachusetts (Cape Cod) to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, northern South America to Uruguay. Eastern Atlantic: southern Portugal to Namibia, including Madeira I., Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. Mediterranean: Alboran Sea to Levantine basin ( Melo 1996; Poupin et al. 2005; Schubart et al. 2005).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: FN: Fausto Filho (1974); MA: Ramos-Porto et al. (1978); CE: Coelho (1969); RN: Rathbun (1918); PB, PE, AL: Rathbun (1900); BA: Rathbun (1898).