Epialtus H. Milne Edwards 1834

Genus Epialtus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 Type species. Epialtus bituberculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 [Type locality: coasts of Chile]. Remarks. Epialtus is an American genus consisting of seven species to date: E. bituberculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 (WA), E. brasiliensis Dana, 1852a (WA); E. dilatat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: In, First Published
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Epialtidae
Epialtus
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7626263
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626263
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Summary:Genus Epialtus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 Type species. Epialtus bituberculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 [Type locality: coasts of Chile]. Remarks. Epialtus is an American genus consisting of seven species to date: E. bituberculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 (WA), E. brasiliensis Dana, 1852a (WA); E. dilatatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 (WA), E. elongatus Rathbun, 1923 (EP), E. longirostris Stimpson, 1860 (WA), E. minimus Lockington, 1877 (EP), E. peruvianus Rathbun, 1923 (EP), and E. sulcirostris Stimpson 1860 (EP). Epialtus portoricensis Rathbun, 1923 (WA) is here placed under the synonymy of E. longirostris (see below). Epialtus bituberculatus has long been known from many localities along the western Atlantic coasts. However, its description was based on a male supposedly from Chile, from where it has never been recorded since. 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 30, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155

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