Mithraculus forceps (A. Milne Edwards, 1875)

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 : 28

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249239

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scientific name

Mithraculus forceps (A. Milne Edwards, 1875)
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Mithraculus forceps (A. Milne Edwards, 1875)

Material examined (N=2). 1m, 12/VI/2004, St. 0 1 ( MZUESC #681).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – from North Carolina to southern Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Venezuela, and Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, and from Maranhão to São Paulo) ( Melo 1996). St. Paul’s Rocks ( Holthuis et al. 1980). Brazil – Santa Catarina ( Rieger & Giraldi 1996).

Ecological notes. On hard bottoms, also on sand, coral, or algae, or associated with sponges. Shallow waters to 90 m ( Melo 1996).

Previous records in Bahia. Miers (1886) (as Mithrax forceps ), Moreira (1901) (as Mithrax forceps ), Rathbun (1925) (as Mithrax (Mithraculus) forceps ), Coelho (1971) (as Mithrax (Mithraculus) forceps ), Coelho & Ramos (1972) (as Mithrax (Mithraculus) forceps ), Melo (1985) (as Mithrax (Mithraculus) forceps ), Gouvêa (1986a) (as Mithrax forceps ), Coelho & Torres (1990), Barreto et al. (1993).

Barreto, A. V., Coelho, P. A. & Ramos-Porto, M. (1993) Distribuicao geografica dos Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) coletados na plataforma continental do Norte e Nordeste do Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 10 (4), 641 - 656.

Coelho, P. A. (1971) Nota previa sobre os Majidae do Norte e Nordeste do Brasil (Crustacea, Decapoda). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 54, 137 - 143.

Coelho, P. A. & Ramos, M. A. (1972) A constituicao e a distribuicao da fauna de decapodos do litoral leste da America do Sul entre as latitudes 5 o N e 39 o S. Trabalhos Oceanograficos da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 13, 133 - 236.

Coelho, P. A. & Torres, M. F. A. (1990) Revisao do genero Mithraculus White na costa atlantica da America do Sul (Crustacea, Decapoda, Majidae). Anais da Sociedade Nordestina de Zoologia, 3, 63 - 92.

Gouvea, E. P. (1986 a) A carcinofauna do litoral rochoso de Salvador, BA, e alguns aspectos ecologicos. Ciencia e Cultura, 38 (2), 346 - 355.

Holthuis, L. B., Edwards, A. J. & Lubbock, H. R. (1980) The Decapod and Stomatopod Crustacea of St Paul's Rocks. Zoologische Mededelingen, 56 (3), 27 - 51.

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.

Miers, E. J. (1886) Report on the Brachyura collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger During the Years 1873 - 1876, Zoology, 17 (49), 1 - 362.

Moreira, C. (1901) Contribuicoes para o conhecimento da fauna brasileira. Crustaceos do Brazil. Archivos do Museu Nacional, 11, 1 - 151.

Rathbun, M. J. (1925) The spider crabs of America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 129, 1 - 613.

Rieger, P. J. & Giraldi, J. B. (1996) Mithraculus forceps (Edwards, 1875) novo registro de Brachyura (Decapoda, Majidae) para o litoral do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Trabalhos Oceanograficos da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 24, 237 - 240.

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

Family

Majidae

Genus

Mithraculus