Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804)

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 : 21

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249179

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scientific name

Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804)
status

 

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Material examined (N=5). 2m, 3f, 12/VII/2003, St. 0 4 (CrUESB#335).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, from North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Central America, Antilles, northern South America, and Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, and from Pará to São Paulo) (Melo 1999). Eastern Atlantic – Cape Verde ( Freitas & Castro 2005).

Ecological notes. On reefs, among rocks, in sponges and other environments that provide shelter. It can also be found in sand and gravel bottoms. From shallow waters to 90 m (Melo 1999).

Previous records in Bahia. White (1847), Gomes Corrêa (1972), Almeida et al. (2007).

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.

Almeida, A. O., Coelho, P. A., Santos, J. T. A. & Ferraz, N. R. (2007) Crustaceos estomatopodos e decapodos da costa de Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil. Atlantica, 29 (1).

Freitas, R. & Castro, M. (2005) Occurrence of Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) (Decapoda, Palinuridae) in the northwest Islands of the Cape Verde Archipelago (Central-East Atlantic). Crustaceana, 78 (10), 1191 - 1201.

White, A. (1847) List of the specimens of Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. London, 143 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Palinuridae

Genus

Panulirus