Callinectes pallidus (de Rochebrune, 1883)

Muñoz, Isabel, García-Raso, J. Enrique, Chillón, Begoña Sánchez & Cuesta, Jose A., 2025, Marine crabs from African waters housed in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC): An opportunity for biogeographic and systematic studies. Part I: Heterotremata (Decapoda, Brachyura), European Journal of Taxonomy 996, pp. 1-94 : 57

Callinectes pallidus (de Rochebrune, 1883)

Fig. 62

Material examined

SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE − Sao Tomé Island • 1 ♂ (76.3×35.6), 1 ♀ (94×42.5); 1959; Santiago Vicente Peris and Julio Álvarez legs.; MNCN20.04/03200 .

Remarks

The specimens were previously identified as C. marginatus . This work provides the first record of this species in waters of São Tomé and Príncipe.

For identification, see also Williams (1974) and Manning & Holthuis (1981).

Figures

Fig. 62. Callinectes pallidus (de Rochebrune, 1883), MNCN20.04/03200. Scale bars = 1 cm.