Frevillea hirsuta

Author
(Borradaile, 1916)
Common Names
  • Tufted Broadface Crab

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Min Depth
70 meters
Max Depth
476 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina–Florida Strait or Straits, Gulf of Mexico, Colombia, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • soft substrate
  • molluscan and other shells or shell hash
References

  • Guinot, D. 1969b. Recherches préliminaries sur les groupements naturels chez les crustacés décapods brachyoures. VII. Les Goneplacidae (suite). Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), série 2, 41: 507–528.

  • Melo, G. A. S. 1996. Manual de Identificação dos Brachyura (Cananguejos e Siris) do Litoral Brasileiro. Plêiade/FAPESP, São Paulo.

  • 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.

  • Powers, L. W. 1977. A catalogue and bibliography to the crabs (Brachyura) of the Gulf of Mexico. Contributions in Marine Science 20 (Supplement): 1–190.

  • Rathbun, M. J. 1918. The grapsoid crabs of America. Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum 97: i–xxii, 1–461.

  • Soto, L. A. 1985. Distributional patterns of deep-water brachyuran crabs in the Straits of Florida. Journal of Crustacean Biology 5: 480–499.

  • Soto, L. A. 1986. Deep-water brachyuran crabs of the Straits of Florida (Crustacea, Decapoda). Anales del Instituto Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 13: 1–68.

  • Williams, A. B. 1984b. Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Endnotes

  • Records include ULLZ 2246 from off the Texas/Louisiana border; small individuals are very difficult to distinguish from F. barbata, and some records of these species may be confused; Colombian record is posted at http://www.invemar.org.co/marco_sibm.htm.

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, 05-13-2024.

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