Metoporhaphis calcaratus (Say, 1818)

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 : 19

Metoporhaphis calcaratus (Say, 1818)

Western Atlantic: North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico to Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) ( Melo 1996, as M. calcarata ).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: RN: Ferreira & Sankarankutty (2002), as M. calcarata ; AL, BA: Miers (1886), as M. forficulatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 ; SE: Coelho et al. (2004), as M. calcarata .