Goniopsis cruentata

Invasion History

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

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Panama Invasion History:

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Invasion history elsewhere in the world:

None

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Description

None

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Taxonomy

Ecology

General:

This crab frequently climes mangrove trees (Rathbun 1918; Warner 1969)

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Habitats

General Habitat	Mangroves	None
General Habitat	Unstructured Bottom	None
General Habitat	Canals	None
Salinity Range	Mesohaline	5-18 PSU
Salinity Range	Polyhaline	18-30 PSU
Salinity Range	Euhaline	30-40 PSU
Tidal Range	Low Intertidal	None
Tidal Range	Mid Intertidal	None
Tidal Range	Supratidal	None
Tidal Range	Emergent	None
Vertical Habitat	Epibenthic	None

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Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Minimum Temperature (ºC)	15	These temperatures were used for a a study on temperature effects on ion regulation (Zander and Martelo 1984, and presumably are close to the crab's normal range.)
Maximum Temperature (ºC)	30	These temperatures were used for a a study on temperature effects on ion regulation (Zander and Martelo 1984, and presumably are close to the crab's normal range.)
Minimum Salinity (‰)	6	Field salinity range, Brazil (Burggren et al. 1993)
Maximum Salinity (‰)	33	Field salinity range, Brazil (Burggren et al. 1993)
Maximum Width (mm)	63	Kaplan 1988
Broad Temperature Range	None	Subtropical-Tropical
Broad Salinity Range	None	Mesohaline-Euhaline

General Impacts

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References

Abele, L.G. (1992) A review of the Grapsid crab genus Sesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae) in America, with the description of a new genus, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 527: 1-60

Abele, Lawrence G.; Kim, Won (1986) An illustrated guide to the marine decapod crustaceans of Florida, State of Florida Department of Environmental Regulation Technical Series 8(1): 1-225

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

Almeida, Alexandre O.; Bezerra, Luis E. A.; Souza-Filho, Jesser F.; Almeida, Sérgio M.; Albuquerque, Débora L.; Coelho, Petrônio A. (2008) Decapod and stomatopod crustaceans from Santo Aleixo Island, state of Pernambuco, Brazil, Nauplius 16(1): 23-41

Burggren, Warren W.; Moreira, Gloria S.; Santos, Maria do Carmo (1993) Specific dynamic action and the metabolism of the brachyuran land crabs Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius 1787), Goniopsis cruentata (Latreille, 1803), and Cardisoma guanhami (Latreille, 1825),, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 169: 117-130

Cohen, Andrew N. (2006) Bridging divides: Maritime canals as invasion corridors., Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. Pp. 127-206

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

Kaplan, Eugene H. (1988) A Field Gude to Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores, In: (Eds.) . , Boston. Pp. <missing location>

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

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 (1918) The Grapsoid crabs of America, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 97: <missing location>

U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002-2021 Invertebrate Zoology Collections Database. http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/iz/



Warner, G. F. (1969) The occurrence and distribution of crabs in a Jamaican mangrove swamp, Journal of Animal Ecology 38(2): 379-389

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