Emerita portoricensis

Abele, L. G., and W. Kim. 1986. An Illustrated Guide to the Marine Decapod Crustaceans of Florida. State of Florida, Department of Environmental Regulation, Technical Series, Volume 8, Number 1, Parts1 & 2: 1–760.

Behre, E. H. 1950. Annotated list of the fauna of the Grand Isle region 1928–1946. Occasional Papers of the Marine Laboratory, Louisiana State University 6: 1–66.

Efford, I. E. 1976. Distribution of the sand crabs in the genus Emerita (Decapoda, Hippidae). Crustaceana 30: 169–183.

Felder, D. L. 1973. An annotated key to crabs and lobsters (Decapoda, Reptantia) from coastal waters of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Publications of The Center for Wetland Resources, LSU-SG-73-02: 1–103.

As noted by Felder (1973) characters distinguishing this species from E. benedicti are very subtle, leading to early distribution reports that were likely confused between this species and E. benedicti; the issue was further addressed by Efford (1976) who could confirm a Gulf of Mexico record for E. portoricensis, primarily an Antillean island species, only in the vicinity of Pensacola, Florida.