Achelous De Haan, 1833

TAVARES, MARCOS & MENDONÇA, JOEL BRAGA DE JR., 2022, Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 5146 (1), pp. 1-129 : 51

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Genus Achelous De Haan, 1833 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 View in CoL [Type locality: Brazil].

Remarks. It is possible to narrow down the type locality of Portunus spinimanus to Brazil based on Latreille’s (1819: 47) statement in the original description “Cette espèce se trouve dans les mers de l’Amérique; elle est commune sur les côtes du Brésil ”.

References

De Haan, W. (1833 - 1850) Crustacea. In: Siebold, P. F. von (Ed.), Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, Quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823 - 1830 Collegit, Noitis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Lugduni-Batavorum, Leiden, pp. i - xxxi + ix - xvi + 1 - 55.

Latreille, P. A. (1819) Portune spinimane, Portunus spinimanus. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, 28, 47.