Dromia Weber 1795

Genus Dromia Weber, 1795 Type species. Cancer personatus Linnaeus, 1758: 628 [Type locality: unknown]. Remarks. Dromia sensu McLay (2009) is exclusively Atlantic/Mediterranean in distribution. Dromia gouveai Melo & Campos Junior, 1999 from Brazil was merged into the synonymy of D. erythropus by...

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Main Author: In, First Published
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Published: Zenodo 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626171
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Summary:Genus Dromia Weber, 1795 Type species. Cancer personatus Linnaeus, 1758: 628 [Type locality: unknown]. Remarks. Dromia sensu McLay (2009) is exclusively Atlantic/Mediterranean in distribution. Dromia gouveai Melo & Campos Junior, 1999 from Brazil was merged into the synonymy of D. erythropus by McLay (2009) based on a personal communication by M. Tavares. A discussion on the identity of D. gouveai is now given. 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 13, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155