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 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.