Panopeus americanus

Author
de Saussure, 1857
Common Names
  • Narrowback Mud Crab

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Min Depth
1 meters
Max Depth
25 meters
Overall Geographic Range
east–west Florida & Keys, Antilles, northern South America, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • loose rubble or coral fragments
  • associated with aquatic vegetation
  • molluscan and other shells or shell hash
References

  • 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.

  • Tabb, D. C., and R. B. Manning. 1961. A checklist of the flora and fauna of northern Florida Bay and adjacent brackish waters of the Florida mainland collected during the period July, 1957 through September, 1960. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 11: 552–649.

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, 05-11-2024.

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