Mithraculus White 1847
- Dataset
- Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Mithracidae
- genus
- Mithraculus
discussion
Remarks. Mithraculus is amphi-American in distribution and is currently formed by nine species: Mithraculus cancasense Türkay, 1967) [Mithrax (Mithraculus)] (EP); M. cinctimanus Stimpson, 1860 (WA); M. coronatus White, 1847 (WA); M. coryphe (Herbst, 1801) [Cancer] (WA); M. denticulatus (Bell, 1835) [Mithrax] (EP); M. forceps A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (WA); M. nodosus (Bell, 1835) [Mithrax] (EP); M. rostratus (Bell, 1835) [Mithrax] (EP); and M. sculptus (Lamarck, 1818 [Maia] (WA). Mithraculus ruber Stimpson, 1871 a (WA), has been transferred to Teleophrys (see below) by Windsor & Felder (2014).
type_taxon
Type species. Mithraculus coronatus White, 1847 [Type locality: West Indies].
Name
- Homonyms
- Mithraculus White 1847