Zaops ostreus (Say, 1817)

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 : 45

Zaops ostreus (Say, 1817)

Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies to Brazil (Santa Catarina) ( Melo 1996, as Z. ostreum ).

Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: CE: Bezerra et al. (2006), as Z. ostreum ; RN: Sankarankutty & Ferreira (2001), as Z. ostreum ; PE: Coelho & Ramos (1972), as Pinnotheres ostreum ; BA: Martins & D'Incao (1996), as Z. ostreum .