Pachygrapsus transversus

Author
(Gibbes, 1850)
Common Names
  • Mottled Shore Crab

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Pachygrapsus transversus
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Pachygrapsus transversus
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HRI-UNAM-BDMY
2
Min Depth
1 meters
Max Depth
1 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Bermuda, North Carolina–Gulf of Mexico, Antilles–Uruguay, east Atlantic Ocean
Habitat-Biology
  • intertidal (0–2 m)
  • hard substrate
  • intertidal splash and spray zone
  • emergent vegetation
  • coastal lagoon
Microhabitat
  • sand
  • beach
References

  • Hernández-Aguilera, J. L., R. E. Toral Almazán, and J. A. Ruiz Nuño. 1996. Especies catalogadas de crustaceos estomatopodos y decapodos para el Golfo de México, Rio Bravo, Tamps. a Progreso, Yuc. Conabio, Dirección de Oceanografia, Secretaría de Marina, México.

  • 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.

  • Schubart, C. D., J. A. Cuesta, and D. L. Felder. 2006. Phylogeography of Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850): the effect of the American continent and the Atlantic Ocean as gene flow barriers, and recognition of Pachygrapsus socius Stimpson 1871 as a valid species. Nauplius (Brazil) 13: 99–113.

  • 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

  • Pacific reports of this species are now interpreted to represent a different taxon (Schubart et al. 2006).

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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