Invasion History
First Non-native Panama (Pacific) Tidal Record: 1974Panama Invasion History:
Invasion history elsewhere in the world:
None
Description
None
Taxonomy
Taxonomic Tree
Kingdom: | Animalia | |
Phylum: | Arthropoda | |
Subphylum: | Crustacea | |
Class: | Malacostraca | |
Subclass: | Eumalacostraca | |
Superorder: | Eucarida | |
Order: | Decapoda | |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata | |
Infraorder: | Brachyura | |
Superfamily: | Portunoidea | |
Family: | Portunidae | |
Genus: | Callinectes | |
Species: | exasperatus |
Synonyms
(, )
Lupea exasperata (Gerstaecker, 1856)
Lupea exasperata (Gerstaecker, 1856)
Potentially Misidentified Species
Callinectes bocourti
None
Callinectes sapidus
None
None
Callinectes sapidus
None
Ecology
Habitats
General Habitat | Grass Bed | None |
General Habitat | Mangroves | None |
General Habitat | Unstructured Bottom | None |
General Habitat | Canals | None |
General Habitat | Coral reef | None |
General Habitat | Coarse Woody Debris | None |
Salinity Range | Oligohaline | 0.5-5 PSU |
Salinity Range | Mesohaline | 5-18 PSU |
Salinity Range | Polyhaline | 18-30 PSU |
Salinity Range | Euhaline | 30-40 PSU |
Tidal Range | Subtidal | None |
Vertical Habitat | Epibenthic | None |
Vertical Habitat | Nektonic | None |
Tolerances and Life History Parameters
Minimum Salinity (‰) | 1.6 | Field (Sanchez and Raz-Guzman 1997) |
Maximum Salinity (‰) | 35.5 | Field (Norse 1978) |
Minimum Width (mm) | 129 | Williams 1984 |
General Impacts
Occurrence Map
OCC_ID | Author | Year | Date | Locality | Status | Latitude | Longitude |
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References
Abele, Lawrence G.; Kim, Won (1989) The decapod crustaceans of the Panama Canal, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 482: 1-50de Almeida, Alexandre O.; Coelho, Petrônio A. (2008) Estuarine and marine brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Bahia, Brazil: checklist and zoogeographical considerations, Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 36(2): 183-222
Markham, John C.; Donath-Hernandez, Francisco; Villalobos-Hiriart, Jose L.; Diaz-Barriga, Antonio-Cantu (1990) Notes on the shallow-water marine Crustacea of the Caribbean coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico, Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Serie Zoologia 61(3): 405-446
Norse, Elliott A. (1978) An experimental gradient analysis: hyposalinity as an 'upstress' distributional determinant for Caribbean portunid crabs, Biological Bulletin 155: 586-598
Rathbun, Mary J. (1901) The Brachyura and Macrura of Porto Rico, Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 20(2): 1-127
Rathbun, Mary Jane (1897) Synopsis of the American Sesarmae, with description of a new species., Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 11: 89-92
Sanchez, A. J.; Raz-Guzman, A. (1997) Patterns of tropical estuarine brachyuran crabs in the Gulf of Mexico, Journal of Crustacean Biology 17(4): 609-620
U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002-2021 Invertebrate Zoology Collections Database. http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/iz/
Williams, Austin B. (1984) Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. Pp. <missing location>