Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning 1987

Genus Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987 Type species. Opecarcinus hypostegus (Shaw & Hopkins, 1977) [Type locality: Florida Middle Ground, west of Tarpon Springs, Gulf of Mexico]. Remarks. Opecarcinus hypostegus is the only Atlantic species of its genus. The remaining eight species in Opecar...

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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
Cryptochiridae
Opecarcinus
Middle Ground
Pacific
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7626407
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626407
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Summary:Genus Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987 Type species. Opecarcinus hypostegus (Shaw & Hopkins, 1977) [Type locality: Florida Middle Ground, west of Tarpon Springs, Gulf of Mexico]. Remarks. Opecarcinus hypostegus is the only Atlantic species of its genus. The remaining eight species in Opecarcinus are Indo-West Pacific in distribution (Kropp 1989; Meij 2014b). Xu et al. (2021) estimated that Opecarcinus harbors about 15 undescribed species and several potential species complexes. 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

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