Portunus (Achelous) floridanus Rathbun, 1930

Coelho, Petrônio Alves, Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda, 2008, Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 1956 (1), pp. 1-58 : 30

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1956.1.1

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scientific name

Portunus (Achelous) floridanus Rathbun, 1930
status

 

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Western Atlantic: North Carolina to Honduras and Nicaragua, West Indies, northern South America to Brazil (Paraíba) ( Williams 1984, as P. floridanus ; Ramos-Porto et al. 2000b, as P. floridanus ).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: PB: Ramos-Porto et al. (2000b), as P. floridanus .

Ramos-Porto, M., Torres, M. F. A., Viana, G. F. S., Santos, M. C. F., Acioli, F. D. & Cabral, E. (2000 b) Registers of two species of Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura in Brazilian waters. Nauplius, 8 (1), 169 - 171.

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. (1984) Shrimps, Lobsters and Crabs of the Atlantic coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 550 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Portunidae

Genus

Portunus