WoRMS taxon details
Callinectes similis Williams, 1966
AphiaID: 158055
AphiaID: 158055
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Portunoidea (Superfamily) > Portunidae (Family) > Portuninae (Subfamily) > Callinectes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Callinectes Stimpson, 1860 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] basis of record: Williams, A.B. 1984. Shrimps, lobsters, and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 550 p. [details] additional source: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details] | ||||||||||
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| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: off Delaware Bay to Key West, Fla., northwestern Florida around Gulf of Mexico to off Campeche, Yucatan; also Isla de Providencia, Colombia; reported from northern Jamaica. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158055 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Callinectes similis Williams, 1966. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158055 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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