Garthiope spinipes

Author
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
Common Names
  • Spiny Mud Crab

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Min Depth
1 meters
Max Depth
82 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Bermuda, Florida Keys, west Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • hard substrate
  • loose rubble or coral fragments
  • epibiotic
References

  • Guinot, D. 1990. Établissement du genre Garthiope gen. nov., ses relations avec le genre Coralliope Guinot, 1967, et leurs affinités avec les Trapeziidae sensu lato (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura). Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), série 4, 12(A 2): 469–478.

  • 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.

  • Pequegnat, L. H., and J. P. Ray. 1974. Crustacea and other arthropods. Pp. 231–288 in T. J. Bright and L. H. Pequegnat, eds. Biota of the West Flower Garden Bank. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston.

  • Rathbun, M. J. 1930. The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum 152: i–xvi, 1–609.

  • Tavares, M. 1991. Especes nouvelles de Cyclodorippoidea Ortmann et remarques sur les genres Tymolus Stimpson et Cyclodorippe A. Milne Edwards (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyrua). Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), séries 4, 12 (A 3–4): 623–648.

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, 05-12-2024.

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