Parthenope agona

Author
(Stimpson, 1871)
Common Names
  • Yellow Elbow Crab

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Parthenope agona
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HRI-UNAM-BDMY
Parthenope agona
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HRI-UNAM-BDMY
2
Min Depth
46 meters
Max Depth
391 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina–Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, northern South America, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • molluscan and other shells or shell hash
  • soft substrate (muds, sands, clays)
References

  • Gore, R. H., and L. E. Scotto. 1979. Crabs of the family Parthenopidae (Crustacea Brachyura: Oxyrhyncha) with notes on specimens from the Indian River region of Florida. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises (Florida Department of Natural Resources) III(IV): 1–98.

  • 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.

  • Pequegnat, W. E., L. H. Pequegnat, R. W. Firth, Jr., B. M. James, and T. W. Roberts. 1971. Gulf of Mexico Deep-Sea Fauna, Decapoda and Euphausiacea. Folio 20: Serial Atlas of the Marine Environment. American Geographical Society, New York.

  • Rathbun, M. J. 1925. The spider crabs of America. Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum 129: i–x, 1–613.

  • 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. 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 7776 from off Louisiana, 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, 05-11-2024.

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