Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856)

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.6249255

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scientific name

Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856)
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Material examined (N=8). 1f, 19/IX/2000, 13°57’05”S / 38°59’68”W ( MZUESC #57); 1f, 30/X/2004, St. 0 4 ( MZUESC #686).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (from Pará to Santa Catarina) ( Melo 1996; Barros & Pimentel 2001).

Ecological notes. In high-salinity and estuarine waters near river mouths and mangroves. Shallow waters to 8 m ( Melo 1996).

Previous records in Bahia. Moreira (1901), Rathbun (1930), Williams (1974), 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. (2001) A fauna de Decapoda (Crustacea) do Estado do Para, Brasil: lista preliminar de especies. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, serie Zoologia, 17 (1), 15 - 41.

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.

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