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 Authors: TAVARES, MARCOS, MENDONÇA, JOEL BRAGA DE JR.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2022
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Achelous
Marcos
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626337
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E3878AA84AFF9404F48AF7FE0EFCA2
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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 TAVARES, MARCOS & MENDONÇA, JOEL BRAGA DE JR., 2022, Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 5146 (1) on page 51, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155

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