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
Mithraculus
White, 1847
Type
species.
Mithraculus coronatus
White, 1847
[
Type
locality:
West Indies
]
.
Remarks.
Mithraculus
is amphi-American in distribution and is currently formed by nine species:
Mithraculus cancasense
Türkay, 1967
) [
Mithrax
(
Mithraculus
)
] (EP);
M. cinctimanus
Stimpson, 1860
(WA);
M. coronatus
White, 1847
(WA);
M. coryphe
(Herbst, 1801)
[
Cancer
] (WA);
M. denticulatus
(
Bell, 1835
)
[
Mithrax
] (EP);
M. forceps
A. Milne-Edwards, 1875
(WA);
M. nodosus
(
Bell, 1835
)
[
Mithrax
] (EP);
M. rostratus
(
Bell, 1835
)
[
Mithrax
] (EP); and
M. sculptus
(
Lamarck, 1818
[
Maia
] (WA).
Mithraculus ruber
Stimpson, 1871a
(WA), has been transferred to
Teleophrys
(see below) by
Windsor & Felder (2014)
.