Mithrax hispidus (Herbst, 1790)

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 : 23

Mithrax hispidus (Herbst, 1790)

Western Atlantic: Delaware to southern Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies to Brazil (Santa Catarina) ( Melo 1996; Rieger & Giraldi 2001).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: PA, PE: Coelho (1971a), as M. (Mithrax) hispidus ; MA: Coelho (1969), as M. (Mithrax) hispidus ; CE: Fausto Filho (1966); RN: Coelho & Ramos (1972), as M. (Mithrax) hispidus ; PB: Rathbun (1898); AL: Miers (1886), as M. hispidus var. pleuracanthus Stimpson, 1871 ; BA: Smith (1869).