Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815

Alves, Maria De Lourdes, Ramos-Porto, Marilena & Viana, Girlene Fábia Segundo, 2008, Checklist of the Decapods (Crustacea) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil, Zootaxa 1881, pp. 43-68 : 63

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.184217

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6229360

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039387B5-9240-FFCA-A69A-FB253239233A

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scientific name

Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815
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Family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 View in CoL

Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787)

Diagnosis: Melo, 1996:484.

Previous records: Pocock, 1890:512 [as Ocypoda arenaria (Catesby, 1771) ]; Moreira, 1901:52 [as Ocypoda arenaria (Catesby, 1771) ]; Coelho and Ramos, 1972:198; Fausto Filho, 1974:16; Williams, 1984:468; Abele and Kim, 1986:66; Melo, 1996: 484, 1998:504; Coelho et al., 2002:446.

Examined material: JUN/92: Baía do Sueste, 2 males, 1 female. AUG/92: Praia da Conceição, 5 specimens. SEP/92: Baía do Sueste, 9 specimens. JAN/2000: Baía do Sueste, 1 male.

Habitat: In galleries excavated in the sand.

Observations: observed preferentially at dawn, dusk and during the night; the larger specimen had been collected in the Baía do Sueste.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

Family

Ocypodidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

Family

Ocypodidae

Genus

Ocypode

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