Porcelain crabs from Brazil (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
Author
Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo
Author
Melo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De
text
Zootaxa
2016
4092
2
175
194
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4092.2.2
210d7273-bbb8-410c-aeb7-222cbd828cfc
1175-5326
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Pachycheles rugimanus
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
(
Fig. 2
C)
Pachycheles rugimanus
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880: 36
(type-locality: West of Florida,
USA
and Contoy
Island
,
Mexico
).
Material examined
. USA—South Carolina,
32°50’06”N
,
78°36’18”W
,
2 males
,
2 females
(USNM-188445).
Recognition characters
. Carapace as long as broad, slightly rugose on lateral margin; notch on anterolateral margin. Front broad, projecting downward, with straight margin. Postorbital angle spiniform. Basis-ischium of antenna with serrate spine on mesial margin; merus of antenna with row of unequal spinules on mesial margin. Chelipeds subequal, robust; merus with serrate distal lobe on flexor margin; carpus with 4 spines on flexor margin, 4 prominent, longitudinal, tuberculated ridges; fingers with hiatus, not pubescent. Walking legs robust; propodus with 2 spines on flexor margin, dactylus with 3 spines on flexor margin. Gonopods present in males. Telson composed of 5 plates.
Habitat
. On calcareous algae and coral reefs bottoms (Veloso & Melo 1993), down to depths of
144 m
(Werding 1977).
Geographic distribution
. Western Atlantic—USA, North Carolina to
Mexico
, Contoy
Island
, Veracruz and Quintana Roo;
Puerto Rico
; Virgin
Island
, St. Thomas;
Suriname
; and
Brazil
(from Amapá to Pernambuco).