Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean
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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
Epialtus
H. Milne Edwards, 1834
Type
species.
Epialtus bituberculatus
H. Milne Edwards, 1834
[
Type
locality: coasts of
Chile
]
.
Remarks.
Epialtus
is an American genus consisting of seven species to date:
E. bituberculatus
H. Milne Edwards, 1834
(WA),
E. brasiliensis
Dana, 1852a
(WA);
E. dilatatus
A.
Milne-Edwards, 1878
(WA),
E. elongatus
Rathbun, 1923
(EP),
E. longirostris
Stimpson, 1860
(WA),
E. minimus
Lockington, 1877
(EP),
E. peruvianus
Rathbun, 1923
(EP), and
E. sulcirostris
Stimpson 1860
(EP).
Epialtus portoricensis
Rathbun, 1923
(WA) is here placed under the synonymy of
E. longirostris
(see below).
Epialtus bituberculatus
has long been known from many localities along the western Atlantic coasts. However, its description was based on a male supposedly from
Chile
, from where it has never been recorded since.