Dromia Weber 1795
- 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
- Dromiidae
- genus
- Dromia
discussion
Remarks. Dromia sensu McLay (2009) is exclusively Atlantic / Mediterranean in distribution. Dromia gouveai Melo & Campos Junior, 1999 from Brazil was merged into the synonymy of D. erythropus by McLay (2009) based on a personal communication by M. Tavares. A discussion on the identity of D. gouveai is now given.
type_taxon
Type species. Cancer personatus Linnaeus, 1758: 628 [Type locality: unknown].
Name
- Homonyms
- Dromia Weber 1795
- Dromia