Opecarcinus hypostegus ...

• Main Author: In, First Published
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Cryptochiridae; Opecarcinus; Opecarcinus hypostegus; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626410; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7626410

Opecarcinus hypostegus (Shaw & Hopkins, 1977) (Fig. 44A, D) Pseudocryptochirus hypostegus Shaw & Hopkins, 1977: 179. Trindade and Martin Vaz specimens. None. Vitória–Trindade Seamount Chain material. Brazil: Espírito Santo: 1 male (MZUSP 40810), REVIZEE Expedition, Vitória–Trindade Seamount Chain, Bank Jaseur, PS /V “Astro Garoupa”, stn 23C, 20°29’00’’S, 36°06’00”W, 8.xi.1997, 60 m. 1 male (MZUSP 40811), Vitória – Trindade Seamount Chain, R /V “Marion Dufresne”, TAAF MD55/ Brésil Expedition, Dogaressa Bank, stn 25 DC43, 20°51’S, 33°45’W, 17.v.1987, 63 m. Comparative material examined. Opecarcinus hypostegus: United States: Florida: 1 ovigerous female (USNM 231681), west Laboratory Dock, 2437’N, 8257’W, 14.viii.1930, 6.1 m. Distribution. Western Atlantic: Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, and Alagoas) (Kropp & Manning 1987; Johnsson et al. 2006). Opecarcinus hypostegus is here recorded from much farther south in the Vitória–Trindade ... : Published as part of In, First Published, 2022, Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 5146 on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155 ...