Callinectes larvatus Ordway, 1863

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 : 32

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249257

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scientific name

Callinectes larvatus Ordway, 1863
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Material examined (N=58). 2m, 06–07/VI/2000 ( MZUESC #59); 1f, 18/IX/2000, 13°52’37”S / 38°57’11”W ( MZUESC #62).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (from Pará to São Paulo) ( Melo 1996; Barros et al. 1997a).

Ecological notes. On sand and mud bottoms and in mangroves, also in brackish water. Rarely in the open sea. Shallow waters to 25 m ( Melo 1996).

Previous records in Bahia. Smith (1869), Moreira (1901) [as C. marginatus A. Milne Edwards, 1861 )], Rathbun (1930) (as C. marginatus ), Williams (1974) (as C. marginatus ), Melo (1985), 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.

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.

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

Rathbun, M. J. (1930) The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 152, 1 - 609.

Smith, S. I. (1869) Notice of the Crustacea collected by Prof. C. F. Hartt on the coast of Brazil in 1867. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2, 1 - 41.

Williams, A. B. (1974) The swimming crabs of the genus Callinectes (Decapoda, Portunidae). Fishery Bulletin, 72 (3), 685 - 798.

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

Family

Portunidae

Genus

Callinectes