Comprehensive Description
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Clastotoechus nodosus (Streets, 1872)
Petrolisthes nodosus Streets, 1872:133.—Haig, 1956:27.
Clastotoechus nodosus.—Haig, 1960:177, fig. 5(3); 178.—Rickner. 1975:163.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.—Galeta Island; 1 juvenile; 8 Mar 1972.
MEASUREMENTS.—2.0 × 2.0 mm.
DISTRIBUTION.—The species was previously known from the littoral zone in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, the southeastern Caribbean, and Venezuela. The Galeta Island material is the first recording for Panama and the southwestern Caribbean; littoral.
- bibliographic citation
- Gore, Robert H. and Abele, Lawrence G. 1976. "Shallow water porcelain crabs from the Pacific coast of Panamá and adjacent Caribbean waters (Crustacea, Anomura, Porcellanidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-30. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.237
