Pachygrapsus gracilis

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 : 37

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.178168

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249307

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scientific name

Pachygrapsus gracilis
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Pachygrapsus gracilis View in CoL (de Saussure, 1858)

Material examined (N=2). 1m, 1f, 29/VIII/2004, St. 0 7 ( MZUESC #728).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – Texas, Caribbean, French Guiana, Brazil (Trindade Island, and from Pará to Rio Grande do Sul), and Argentina. Eastern Atlantic – from Senegal to Angola ( Melo 1996; Barros et al. 1997a; Poupin et al. 2005).

Ecological notes. On rocky bottoms, in the intertidal zone. Under rocks or jetties, among mangrove roots, and on sandy beaches. Also in estuaries and reefs ( Melo 1996).

Previous records in Bahia. Rathbun (1918), Gouvêa (1986b), Almeida et al. (2006).

Almeida, A. O., Coelho, P. A., Santos, J. T. A. & Ferraz, N. R. (2006) Crustaceos decapodos estuarinos de Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil. Biota Neotropica, 6 (2), (http: // www. biotaneotropica. org. br / v 6 n 2 / pt / abstract? inventory + bn 03406022006)

Barros, M. P., Pimentel, F. R. & Silva, S. B. (1997 a) Novos registros de Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) para o litoral do Estado do Para, Brasil. Nauplius, 5 (2), 161 - 163.

Gouvea, E. P. (1986 b) A carcinofauna do litoral arenoso e areno-lodoso de Salvador, BA e areas adjacentes. Ciencia e Cultura, 38 (5), 875 - 883.

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

Poupin, J., Davie, P. J. F. & Cexus, J. - C. (2005) A revision of the genus Pachygrapsus Randall, 1840 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura, Grapsidae), with special reference to the Southwest Pacific species. Zootaxa, 1015, 1 - 66.

Rathbun, M. J. (1918) The grapsoid crabs of America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 97, 1 - 461.

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

Family

Grapsidae

Genus

Pachygrapsus