Portunus (Achelous) spinimanus Latreille, 1819

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

Portunus (Achelous) spinimanus Latreille, 1819

Western Atlantic: Bermuda, New Jersey to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, northern South America to Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) ( Melo 1996, as P. spinimanus ).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: AP, PA: Barreto et al. (1993a), as P. spinimanus ; MA: Coelho & Ramos-Porto (1992), as P. spinimanus ; PI: Coelho Filho (2006), as P. spinimanus ; PE, AL: Coelho & Ramos (1972), as P. spinimanus ; SE: Coelho et al. (2004), as P. spinimanus ; BA: Smith (1869), as Achelous spinimanus .