Bythograea, WILLIAMS, 1980
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GENUS BYTHOGRAEA WILLIAMS, 1980 View in CoL
By far the most diverse of the bythograeid genera, Bythograea contains at least six and possibly more species, all of which are endemic to hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific (see below). It is probable that the bythograeid crabs encountered (but not collected) by Stecher et al. (2002) from the Foundation Seamount Chain of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge also belong to this genus, as it is due south of known sites where crabs of the genus Bythograea have been documented and collected. Clark & O’Shea (2001) reported an undescribed species of Bythograea from the Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand; we are not aware of that species having been described.
Clark MR, O'Shea S. 2001. Hydrothermal vent and seamount fauna from the southern Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand. InterRidge News 10 (2): 14 - 17.
Stecher J, Turkay M, Borowski C. 2002. Faunal assemblages on the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge near the Foundation Seamount Chain (37 ° 30 ' S, 110 ° 30 ' W). Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43: 271 - 274.
Williams AB. 1980. A new crab family from the vicinity of submarine thermal vents on the Galapagos Rift (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93 (2): 443 - 472.
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