WoRMS taxon details

Achelous binoculus (Holthuis, 1969)

557880  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:557880)

accepted
Species
Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969) Holthuis, L.B. (1969). <i>Portunus binoculus</i>, n. sp., a new deep-water swimming crab from the Caribbean Region (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 19(2): 409-427. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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. (2024). DecaNet. Achelous binoculus (Holthuis, 1969). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=557880 on 2024-04-23
Date
action
by
2011-01-05 08:26:45Z
created
2021-01-06 12:10:07Z
changed
2022-04-12 08:25:46Z
changed

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original description  (of Portunus binoculus Holthuis, 1969) Holthuis, L.B. (1969). <i>Portunus binoculus</i>, n. sp., a new deep-water swimming crab from the Caribbean Region (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 19(2): 409-427. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

new combination reference Mantelatto, F.L.; Robles, R.; Schubart, C.D.; Felder, D.L. (2009). Molecular phylogeny of the genus <em>Cronius</em> Stimpson, 1860, with reassignment of <em>C. tumidulus</em> and several American species of <em>Portunus</em> to the genus <em>Achelous</em> De Haan, 1833 (Brachyura: Portunidae). <em>In: Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (eds).</em> CRC Press, England, pp. 567–579., available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420092592-c29 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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

Habitat Soft bottom (mud or sand) [details]
LanguageName 
English redspot swimming crab [from synonym]  [details]