Hypoconcha parasitica

Author
Linnaeus, 1763
Common Names
  • Rough Shellback Crab

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Min Depth
1 meters
Max Depth
83 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina–Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean Sea–Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • loose rubble or coral fragments
  • molluscan and other shells or shell hash
References

  • 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.

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

  • Melo, G. A. S., M. F. A. Torres, and O. Campos, Jr. 1998. Malacostraca - Eucarida. Brachyura. Dromiacea and Oxystomata. Pp. 439–454 in P. S. Young, ed. Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Museu Nacional, Série Livros n. 6, Rio de Janerio.

  • 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.

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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