Invasion History

First Non-native Panama (Pacific) Tidal Record: 1974

Panama 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)

Potentially Misidentified Species

Callinectes bocourti
None

Callinectes sapidus
None

Ecology


Habitats

General HabitatGrass BedNone
General HabitatMangrovesNone
General HabitatUnstructured BottomNone
General HabitatCanalsNone
General HabitatCoral reefNone
General HabitatCoarse Woody DebrisNone
Salinity RangeOligohaline0.5-5 PSU
Salinity RangeMesohaline5-18 PSU
Salinity RangePolyhaline18-30 PSU
Salinity RangeEuhaline30-40 PSU
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Vertical HabitatEpibenthicNone
Vertical HabitatNektonicNone


Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Minimum Salinity (‰)1.6Field (Sanchez and Raz-Guzman 1997)
Maximum Salinity (‰)35.5Field (Norse 1978)
Minimum Width (mm)129Williams 1984

General Impacts


Regional Distribution Map

Bioregion Region Name Year Invasion Status Population Status
PAN_PAC Panama Pacific Coast 1974 Non-native Unknown
PAN_CAR Panama Caribbean Coast 1856 Native Established

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Abele, Lawrence G.; Kim, Won (1989) The decapod crustaceans of the Panama Canal, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 482: 1-50

de 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>