Tetraxanthus bidentatus

Chace, F. A., Jr. 1939. Reports on the scientific results of the first Atlantis expedition to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. Preliminary descriptions of one new genus and seventeen new species of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural 13: 31–54.

Chace, F. A., Jr. 1940b. Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The brachyuran crabs. Torreia (Havana) 4: 1–67.

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. 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.

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.

Assignment of Tetraxanthus 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); the confusing history of names for the two species of Tetraxanthus in the Gulf of Mexico has been reviewed by Chace (1940b) and Powers (1977); the species described and depicted as T. bidentatus in Rathbun (1930) was found to be new and was subsequently named T. rathbunae; that described and depicted in Rathbun (1930) as T. rugosus was subsequently found to represent the true T. bidentatus.