Petrolisthes armatus (Gibbes, 1850)

Diez, Yander L. & Lira, Carlos, 2017, Systematics and biogeography of Cuban porcelain crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae), Zootaxa 4216 (5), pp. 441-456 : 446

Petrolisthes armatus (Gibbes, 1850)

Global distribution. Western Atlantic : Connecticut ( USA) , Bermuda, Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Virgin Islands and Lesser Antilles, to Santa Catarina ( Brazil) . Eastern Atlantic : Gibraltar , Senegal to Angola, Ascension Island. Eastern Pacific : Mexico (Sonora and Baja California, Nayarit, Jalisco and Oaxaca) ; Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands , Perú

Records in Cuba. Gulf of Batabanó ( Martínez-Iglesias & Alcolado 1990), La Habana (Cojímar) (Ortiz 2001) , Mayabeque (Boca Canasí) ( Barro et al. 2013), Gulf of Ana María ( Rodríguez-Viera et al. 2012), Sabana- Camagüey Archipelago ( Martínez-Iglesias 2007) , Sancti Spíritus (Tunas de Zaza) ( Lalana et al. 1980) , Holguín (Gibara, Naranjo, Banes and Nipe Bays) , Santiago de Cuba (Santiago de Cuba Bay) ( Diez & Jover 2013, 2015) , Guantánamo ( Taco Bay ).