Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean
Author
In, First Published
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-06-02
5146
1
129
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1
11755334
52C3E5E3-80B6-49DB-BC9C-194560D491F7
Genus
Amphithrax
Windsor & Felder, 2017
Type
species.
Cancer aculeatus
Herbst, 1790
[
Type
locality: America].
Remarks.
Amphithrax
currently includes 9 species in both sides of the Americas plus the eastern Atlantic
A. caboverdianus
(Türkay, 1986) (
Windsor & Felder, 2017
)
. Herbst (1790: 248) referred to
Cancer aculeatus
(currently
A. aculeatus
) as “a very rare American crab”, with no further detail as to the locality. The
type
locality “America” can be narrowed down to an area between Florida and
Venezuela
, which is the known range of this species (Florida Key,
Bahamas
, western Gulf of Mexico and from
Cuba
to
Venezuela
).