Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987

In, First Published, 2022, Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 5146, pp. 1-129 : 81

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scientific name	Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987
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Genus Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Opecarcinus hypostegus ( Shaw & Hopkins, 1977) View in CoL [Type locality: Florida Middle Ground, west of Tarpon Springs, Gulf of Mexico] .

Remarks. Opecarcinus hypostegus is the only Atlantic species of its genus. The remaining eight species in Opecarcinus are Indo-West Pacific in distribution ( Kropp 1989; Meij 2014b). Xu et al. (2021) estimated that Opecarcinus harbors about 15 undescribed species and several potential species complexes.