WoRMS taxon details

Euchirograpsus americanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

217262  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217262)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Milne-Edwards, A. (1880). Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea,1877, '78, '79, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N. commanding VIII. Études préliminaires sur les Crustacés. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 8(2): 1-68, pls. 1-2. [details] OpenAccess publication
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m)  
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Euchirograpsus americanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217262 on 2025-03-24
Date
action
by
1998-01-02 14:01:37Z
created
2010-02-25 14:41:38Z
changed
2010-02-25 15:57:43Z
changed
2022-03-25 11:49:25Z
changed

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Nomenclature

original description Milne-Edwards, A. (1880). Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea,1877, '78, '79, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N. commanding VIII. Études préliminaires sur les Crustacés. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 8(2): 1-68, pls. 1-2. [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Crosnier, A. (1975). Sur quelques Portunidae, Grapsidae et Ocypodidae (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura) de Madagascar ou des Iles avoisinantes, nouvaux, rares ou non encore signales. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, sér. 3, sec. A.</em> 304(214): 711-741. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Bermuda) Markham, J. C.; McDermott, J. J. (1980). A tabulation of the Crustacea Decapoda of Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 93(4): 1266-1276 [details] 

additional source Felder, D. L., Álvarez. F.,Goy, J.W. & Lemaitre, R. (2009). Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea,. <em>Felder, D.L., and Camp, D.K. (eds), Gulf of Mexico - Origins, Waters, and Biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity.</em> Pp. 1019–1104 (Texas A&M University Press: College Station, Texas)., available online at http://biogomx.net/sites/default/files/pdfs/chapters/59-Felder%20et%20al%202009-Decapoda%20of%20the%20GoMx.pdf [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Depth range Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) [details]

Habitat Hard bottom (rock and rubbles) [details]
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LanguageName 
English American talon crab  [details]