Robertsella mystica

Author
Guinot, 1969
Common Names
  • Spiked Bathyal Crab

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Min Depth
210 meters
Max Depth
519 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Southeastern Florida, Florida Strait or Straits, Gulf of Mexico
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • soft substrate
  • slope
References

  • Guinot, D. 1969c. Recherches préliminaries sur les groupements naturels chez les crustacés décapods brachyoures. VII. Les Goneplacidae (suite et fin). Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), série 2, 41: 688–724.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Wicksten, M., and J. M. Packard. 2005. A qualitative zoogeographic analysis of decapod crustaceans of the continental slopes and abyssal plain of the Gulf of Mexico. Part I, Deep-Sea Research 52: 1745–1765.

Endnotes

  • Assignment of Robertsella to the family Pseudorhombilidae by Števčić (2005) is adopted provisionally, pending outcomes of ongoing molecular phylogenetic studies; it was treated among “Xanthoidea incertae sedis” by McLaughlin et al. (2005).

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, 05-07-2024.

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