Invasion History
First Non-native Panama (Caribbean) Tidal Record: 1971Panama 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: | Anomura | |
| Superfamily: | Hippoidea | |
| Family: | Albuneidae | |
| Genus: | Albunea | |
| Species: | catherinae |
Synonyms
Potentially Misidentified Species
Ecology
Habitats
| General Habitat | Unstructured Bottom | None |
| General Habitat | Grass Bed | None |
| Salinity Range | Polyhaline | 18-30 PSU |
| Salinity Range | Euhaline | 30-40 PSU |
| Tidal Range | Subtidal | None |
| Vertical Habitat | Endobenthic | None |
Tolerances and Life History Parameters
| Minimum Length (mm) | 4 | Faulkes 2016 |
| Maximum Length (mm) | 18 | Faulkes 2016 |
| Broad Temperature Range | None | Warm Temperate-Tropical |
| Broad Salinity Range | None | Polyhaline-Euhaline |
General Impacts
Regional Distribution Map
Non-native
Native
Cryptogenic
Failed
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Occurrence Map
References
Boyko, Christopher B. (2010) New records and taxonomic data for 14 species of sand crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Albuneidae) from localities worldwide, Zootaxa 2555: 49-61Enrique-Navarro, Angélica; Laura Prieto (2020) First record of Phyllorhiza punctata(Cnidaria: Rhizostomae: Mastigiidae) in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, Cahiers de Biologie Marine 61: 349-353
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>