Portunus (Achelous) ordwayi (Stimpson, 1860)

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 : 30

Portunus (Achelous) ordwayi (Stimpson, 1860)

Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, northern South America to Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) ( Melo 1996, as P. ordwayi ).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: SFN: Coelho Filho (2006), as P. ordwayi ; FN, PA, PI, CE, PE: Coelho (1969), as P. ordwayi ; AP: Viana et al. (2003a), as P. ordwayi ; MA: Coelho & Ramos-Porto (1992), as P. ordwayi ; RN, PB, AL: Coelho & Ramos (1972), as P. ordwayi ; BA: Smith (1869), as Achelous Ordwayi [sic].