Plagusia depressa

Author
Fabricius, 1775
Common Names
  • Tidal Spray Crab

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Plagusia depressa
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Min Depth
3 meters
Max Depth
3 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina–Gulf of Mexico, Antilles–Brazil, Central & east Atlantic Ocean
Habitat-Biology
  • intertidal (0–2 m)
  • hard substrate
  • loose rubble or coral fragments
  • intertidal splash and spray zone
References

  • Álvarez, F., J. L. Villalobos, Y. Rojas, and R. Robles. 1999. Listas y comentarios sobre los crustáceos decápodos de Veracruz, México. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 70: 1–27.

  • Haburay, K. 1975. Plagusia depressa from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Florida Scientist 38: 28–30.

  • 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.

  • Schubart, C. D., J. I. González-Gordillo, N. B. Reyns, H. C. Liu, and J. A. Cuesta. 2001. Are Atlantic and Indo-Pacific populations of the rafting crab, Plagusia depressa (Fabricius), distinct? New evidence from larval morphology and mtDNA. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49: 301–310.

  • 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 1592 from South Padre Island, Texas, jetties at Brazos Santiago Pass, and ULLZ 2541 from emergent pilings of oil platform off Louisiana, ID by D. L. Felder; recent expansion of range as invasive species includes eastern Mediterranean Sea (http://www.aquaticinvasions.ru/, volume 1, issue 3).

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, 05-14-2024.

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