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
Pachygrapsus
Randall, 1840
Type
species.
Pachygrapsus crassipes
Randall, 1840
[
Type
locality:
Cuba
]
.
Remarks.
Pachygrapsus
encompass three species in the southwestern Atlantic:
P. corrugatus
(von
Martens, 1872
)
,
P. gracilis
(de
Saussure, 1858
)
and
P. transversus
(
Gibbes, 1850
)
.
Pachygrapsus gracilis
and
P. transversus
were both recorded for the first time from Trindade by
Melo (1996
;
1998
) and these records were repeated by subsequent authors (e.g.
Almeida & Coelho 2008
and references therein). Actually, both records were not based on actual specimens and should be dismissed as they cannot be authenticated (see also Tavares
et al.
2017).