Epialtus H. Milne Edwards, 1834

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 : 30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52C3E5E3-80B6-49DB-BC9C-194560D491F7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626263

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E3878A-A865-FFBB-04F4-89D5FAC5FCF0

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Plazi

scientific name

Epialtus H. Milne Edwards, 1834
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Genus Epialtus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Epialtus bituberculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 View in CoL [Type locality: coasts of Chile].

Remarks. Epialtus is an American genus consisting of seven species to date: E. bituberculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 (WA), E. brasiliensis Dana, 1852a (WA); E. dilatatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 (WA), E. elongatus Rathbun, 1923 (EP), E. longirostris Stimpson, 1860 (WA), E. minimus Lockington, 1877 (EP), E. peruvianus Rathbun, 1923 (EP), and E. sulcirostris Stimpson 1860 (EP).

Epialtus portoricensis Rathbun, 1923 (WA) is here placed under the synonymy of E. longirostris (see below).

Epialtus bituberculatus has long been known from many localities along the western Atlantic coasts. However, its description was based on a male supposedly from Chile, from where it has never been recorded since.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

SuperFamily

Majoidea

Family

Epialtidae

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