Micropanope nuttingi

Author
Rathbun, 1898
Common Names
  • Beaded Mud Crab

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Min Depth
1 meters
Max Depth
183 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina–Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Colombia, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • loose rubble or coral fragments
  • molluscan and other shells or shell hash
  • soft substrate (muds, sands, clays)
References

  • Felder, D. L., and A. H. Chaney. 1979. Decapod crustacean fauna of Seven and One-Half Fathom Reef, Texas: species composition, abundance and species diversity. Contributions in Marine Science 22: 1–29.

  • Lemaitre, R. 1981. Shallow-water crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) collected in the southern Caribbean near Cartagena, Colombia. Bulletin of Marine Science 31: 234–266.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 4710, 5791 from East Flower Garden Banks and ULLZ 5804 from “30 Fathom Lump” hard bank off Louisiana; also 6733 from the Campeche Banks in the southwestern Gulf of 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, 05-09-2024.

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