Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626407 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E3878A-A828-FFF6-04F4-88EEFBEFFE7B |
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Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987 |
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Genus Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987 View in CoL View at ENA
Type species. Opecarcinus hypostegus ( Shaw & Hopkins, 1977) View in CoL [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.
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