Neopilumnoplax americana

Author
Rathbun, 1898
Common Names
  • Bimarginate Bathyal Crab

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Min Depth
128 meters
Max Depth
805 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina–south Florida, Antilles, Brazil, Indo-Pacific region
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • soft substrate
  • molluscan and other shells or shell hash
  • loose rubble or coral fragments
References

  • Chace, F. A., Jr. 1940b. Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The brachyuran crabs. Torreia (Havana) 4: 1–67.

  • 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. 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., L. R. McCloskey, and I. E. Gray. 1968. New records of brachyuran decapod crustaceans from the continental shelf off North Carolina, U.S.A. Crustaceana 15: 41–66.

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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