Pachycheles rugimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo & Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De, 2016, Porcelain crabs from Brazil (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae), Zootaxa 4092 (2), pp. 175-194 : 183

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.2.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3503919

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scientific name

Pachycheles rugimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
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Pachycheles rugimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880: 36 (type-locality: West of Florida, USA and Contoy Island, Mexico).

Material examined. USA—South Carolina, 32°50’06”N, 78°36’18”W, 2 males, 2 females (USNM-188445).

Recognition characters. Carapace as long as broad, slightly rugose on lateral margin; notch on anterolateral margin. Front broad, projecting downward, with straight margin. Postorbital angle spiniform. Basis-ischium of antenna with serrate spine on mesial margin; merus of antenna with row of unequal spinules on mesial margin. Chelipeds subequal, robust; merus with serrate distal lobe on flexor margin; carpus with 4 spines on flexor margin, 4 prominent, longitudinal, tuberculated ridges; fingers with hiatus, not pubescent. Walking legs robust; propodus with 2 spines on flexor margin, dactylus with 3 spines on flexor margin. Gonopods present in males. Telson composed of 5 plates.

Habitat. On calcareous algae and coral reefs bottoms (Veloso & Melo 1993), down to depths of 144 m (Werding 1977).

Geographic distribution. Western Atlantic—USA, North Carolina to Mexico, Contoy Island, Veracruz and Quintana Roo; Puerto Rico; Virgin Island, St. Thomas; Suriname; and Brazil (from Amapá to Pernambuco).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Porcellanidae

Genus

Pachycheles

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Porcellanidae

Genus

Pachycheles

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