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Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Megalobrachium

Megalobrachium roseum (Rathbun, 1900)

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World Distribution
Rodriguez et al. (2005: 551) - Bocas del Toro, Panama; Santa Marta, Colombia; Margarita and Cubagua Islands, La Restringa Lagoon, Venezuela; Martinique; from Maranhao to Sao Paulo, Brazil. - Poupin & Lemaitre (Zoosystema, 2014) - ICA - Martinique; IOV - Margarita, Cubagua

(Ferreira, 2019, Arquivos de Ciências do Mar) - Western Atlantic: Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago; Costa Rica, Limón; Panama, Bocas del Toro; Martinique; Colombia, Santa Marta, Gulf of Morrosquillo; Venezuela, Margarita Islands and Cubagua, La Restinga Lagoon; Suriname; and from Maranhão to São Paulo and Santa Catarina, Brazil. (Suriname probably in error).

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-20 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: ICA (Martinique), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua). 0-20 m. WA.
Porcellanopsis rosea - Haig, 1956 : 34, Cubagua [coll. R/V Velero III, 1939] - Rodríguez, 1980: 219, Cubagua. - Lira, 1997, tab. 4, Margarita.
Megalobrachium roseum - Lira et al., 2001: 60, Margarita. - Rodríguez et al., 2005: 551, Martinique, Margarita, Cubagua. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014, tab. 2, Martinique, Margarita, Cubagua.

Update after 2018
Megalobrachium roseum. — Ferreira, 2019 (Arquivos de Ciências do Mar): 61, Tobago, Tobago, Sandy Bay, B. Werding coll., 07 April 1992, 3 females (USNM 268872); B. Werding coll., 07 April 1992, 1 female (USNM 268882).

Comment(s) on data
Suriname in Ferreira & Melo, 2016 is probably a typo error
Megalobrachium roseum - Ferreira, 2010, thesis: 49, fig. 5, Suriname [not documented; perhaps a typo error]. - Ferreira & Melo, 2016, Suriname [in Distribution, not retreived in references cited, such as Veloso & Melo, 1993]. - Mantelatto et al. 2021: 566, Suriname [in Distribution, from Ferreira & Melo].
In Werding et al. (2003, tab. 1, not from 11 = 'Guianas'), Rodríguez et al. (2005: 551, Bocas del Toro, Panama; Santa Marta, Colombia; Margarita and Cubagua Islands, La Restringa Lagoon, Venezuela; Martinique; from Maranhao to Sao Paulo, Brazil.) - Not from Suriname.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database