Mithraculus sculptus (Lamarck, 1818)

Coelho, Petrônio Alves, Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda, 2008, Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 1956 (1), pp. 1-58 : 22

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1956.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5242267
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scientific name	Mithraculus sculptus (Lamarck, 1818)
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Mithraculus sculptus (Lamarck, 1818) View in CoL

Western Atlantic: Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies to Brazil (Bahia) ( Melo 1996).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: FN: Miers (1886), as Mithrax (Mithraculus) sculptus ; BA: Rathbun (1925), Mithrax (Mithraculus) sculptus .

References

Melo, G. A. S. (1996) Manual de identificacao dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do litoral brasileiro. Editora Pleiade, Sao Paulo, 603 pp.

Miers, E. J. (1886) Report on the Brachyura collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger During the Years 1873 - 1876, Zoology, 17 (49), 1 - 362.

Rathbun, M. J. (1925) The spider crabs of America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 129, 1 - 613.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Mithracidae
Genus	Mithraculus

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