Acantholobulus bermudensis

Author
Felder & Martin, 2003
Common Names
  • Strongtooth Mud Crab

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
15 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Bermuda, east Florida–Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Caribbean Sea–Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • epibiotic
  • loose rubble or coral fragments
  • molluscan and other shells or shell hash
References

  • Felder, D. L., and J. W. Martin. 2003. Establishment of a new genus for Panopeus bermudensis Benedict and Rathbun, 1891, and several other xanthoid crabs from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Xanthoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116: 438–452.

  • Hernández-Aguilera, J. L., R. E. Toral Almazán, and J. A. Ruiz Nuño. 1996. Especies catalogadas de crustaceos estomatopodos y decapodos para el Golfo de México, Rio Bravo, Tamps. a Progreso, Yuc. Conabio, Dirección de Oceanografia, Secretaría de Marina, México.

  • Melo, G. A. S. 1998b. Malacostraca - Eucarida. Brachyura. Oxyrhyncha and Brachyrhyncha. Pp. 455–515 in P. S. Young, ed. Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Museu Nacional, Série Livros n. 6, Rio de Janerio.

  • Raz-Guzman, A., and L. J. Sánchez. 1996. Catálogo illustrado de cangrejos braquiuros (Crustacea) de la Laguna de Tamiahua, Veracruz, Mexico. Cuadernos del Instituto de Biología (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) 31: 1–52.

Endnotes

  • Records include ULLZ 2460 from east southeastern Gulf of Mexico off Yucatan, Mexico, ID by D. L. Felder.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-04-2024.

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