Menippe nodifrons Stimpson, 1859

Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, Zootaxa 1553, pp. 1-45 : 34-35

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scientific name

Menippe nodifrons Stimpson, 1859
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Menippe nodifrons Stimpson, 1859

Material examined (N= 1). 1 juv, 25 /IX/ 2004, St. 0 4 ( MZUESC # 724).

Distribution. Western Atlantic - east coast of the United States, Central America, Antilles, northern South America, and Brazil (from Maranhão to Santa Catarina). Eastern Pacific - from Cape Verde to Angola ( Melo 1996).

Ecological notes. In intertidal pools, under rocks, and jetties. Shallow waters ( Melo 1996). Previous records in Bahia. Joly et al. (1969), Gomes Corrêa (1972), Melo (1985).

Joly, A. B., Oliveira Filho, E. & Narchi, W. (1969) Projeto de criacao de um Parque Nacional Marinho na regiao de Abrolhos, Bahia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 41 (Supl.), 247 - 251.

Gomes Correa, M. M. (1972) Contribuicao ao conhecimento da fauna do Arquipelago de Abrolhos, Bahia, Brasil. 2 - Lista preliminar de crustaceos decapodos. Boletim do Museu de Historia Natural, Zoologia, Belo Horizonte, 15, 1 - 19.

Melo, G. A. S. (1985) Taxonomia e padroes distribucionais e ecologicos dos Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) do litoral sudeste do Brasil. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 216 pp.

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

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Menippidae

Genus

Menippe