Decapoda - Brachyura - Euryplacidae - Euryplax

Euryplax nitida Stimpson, 1859



World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - 4-90 m. Ber, NCar–GMx, Antil, Carib–Brazil. - Castro & Ng (2010, Zootaxa) - Western Atlantic from North Carolina, Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico to southern Brazil (Coelho et al. 2008). Depth: shallow subtidal to 90 m (Powers 1977).

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 4-90 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: ICA (St Thomas, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Curaçao, Aruba). 4-90 m. WA.
Euryplax nitida - Rathbun, 1918: 34, St Thomas [from Stimpson; ?not retreived]. - Rathbun, 1920a: 23, Curaçao, Aruba [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1933: 78, St Thomas. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Castro & Ng, 2010: 47, Trinidad, Margarita, Cubagua, Curaçao.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Euryplax nitida – GBIF 2023, Suriname [From Complementary Benthic Biodiversity Baseline Survey, Block 58, Suriname, 2021, grab, 2 occurrences, e.g. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/3913951436 ]
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 0–90 m.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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