Invasion History

First Non-native North American Tidal Record:
First Non-native West Coast Tidal Record:
First Non-native East/Gulf Coast Tidal Record:

General Invasion History:

None

North American Invasion History:

Description

None

Taxonomy

Taxonomic Tree

Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:   Arthropoda
Subphylum:   Crustacea
Class:   Malacostraca
Subclass:   Eumalacostraca
Superorder:   Eucarida
Order:   Decapoda
Suborder:   Pleocyemata
Infraorder:   Brachyura
Superfamily:   Xanthoidea
Family:   Panopeidae
Genus:   Eurypanopeus
Species:   depressus

Synonyms

Panopeus depressus (Smith, 1869)

Potentially Misidentified Species

Dyspanopeus sayi
None

Dyspanopeus texana
None

Panopeus herbsti
None

Rhithropanopeus harrisi
None

Ecology

Food:

Molluscs, Annelids; Algae; Carrion

Trophic Status:

Omnivore

Omni

Habitats

General HabitatCoarse Woody DebrisNone
General HabitatUnstructured BottomNone
General HabitatOyster ReefNone
General HabitatMarinas & DocksNone
General HabitatRockyNone
General HabitatSalt-brackish marshNone
Salinity RangeMesohaline5-18 PSU
Salinity RangePolyhaline18-30 PSU
Salinity RangeEuhaline30-40 PSU
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Tidal RangeLow IntertidalNone
Vertical HabitatEpibenthicNone

Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Minimum Temperature (ºC)5.3Field data,Chesapeake Bay, Ryan 1956
Maximum Temperature (ºC)29.4Field data,Chesapeake Bay, Ryan 1956
Minimum Salinity (‰)4.5Field data,Chesapeake Bay, Ryan 1956
Maximum Salinity (‰)33.6Field data, VA Atlantic shore, Wass 1972
Minimum Width (mm)5.1Adult males, 5.5 in females (Williams 1984)
Maximum Width (mm)25Males, 18.7 for females (Williams 1984)
Broad Temperature RangeNoneWarm temperate-Subtropical
Broad Salinity RangeNoneMesohaline-Euhaline

General Impacts

Regional Distribution Map

Bioregion Region Name Year Invasion Status Population Status
NA-ET3 Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras 1869 Native Estab
CAR-VII Cape Hatteras to Mid-East Florida 0 Native Estab
CAR-I Northern Yucatan, Gulf of Mexico, Florida Straits, to Middle Eastern Florida 0 Native Estab
NA-ET2 Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod 1879 Crypto Estab
SA-II None 1954 Def Estab
N180 Cape Cod Bay 1879 Crypto Estab
SA-I None 2003 Def Estab
N130 Great Bay 1926 Crypto Estab

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Batchelder, C. H. (1926) An ecological study of a brackish-water stream., Ecology 7(1): 55-71

Byers, James E.; Griffen, Blaine (2006) <missing title>, The New Hampshire Estuaries Project, <missing place>. Pp. <missing location>

Gosner, Kenneth L. (1978) A field guide to the Atlantic seashore., In: (Eds.) . , Boston. Pp. <missing location>

Ryan, Edward Parsons (1956) Observations on the life histories and the distribution of the Xanthidae (Mud Crabs) of Chesapeake Bay., American Midland Naturalist <missing volume>: 138-162

Smith, S. I. (1879) The stalk-eyed crustaceans of the Atlantic coast of North American North of Cape Cod, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 5(1): 27-138

Spivak, Eduardo D.; Luppi, Tomas A. (2005) Southern range extension of two western Atlantic intertidal mud crabs: Panopeus meridionalis Williams, 1984 and Eurypanopeus depressus Smith, 1869 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Panopeidae in Argentinian waters., Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 188(3): 551-557

Tavares, Marco (2011) In the wrong place- Alien marine crustaceans: Distribution, biology, impacts, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. Pp. 251-268

Wass, Melvin L. (1972) A checklist of the biota of lower Chesapeake Bay, Special Scientific Report, Virginia Institute of Marine Science 65: 1-290

Wass, Melvin L. (1972) A Checklist of the Biota of Lower Chesapeake Bay, None <missing volume>: <missing location>

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>