Achelous De Haan 1833

Genus Achelous De Haan, 1833 Type species. Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 [Type locality: Brazil]. Remarks. It is possible to narrow down the type locality of Portunus spinimanus to Brazil based on Latreille’s (1819: 47) statement in the original description “Cette espèce se trouve dans les mer...

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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
Portunidae
Achelous
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7626337
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626337
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Summary:Genus Achelous De Haan, 1833 Type species. Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 [Type locality: Brazil]. Remarks. It is possible to narrow down the type locality of Portunus spinimanus to Brazil based on Latreille’s (1819: 47) statement in the original description “Cette espèce se trouve dans les mers de l’Amérique; elle est commune sur les côtes du Brésil ”. 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 51, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155

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