Spinolambrus macrochelos (Herbst, 1790)

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 : 47

Spinolambrus macrochelos (Herbst, 1790)

Fig. 51

Material examined

MOROCCO − Pozos de Kinitra, Port-Licotey • 1 unsexed (55.4 ×37.9); Jul. 1956; José Díaz Pintado leg.; in “Sala del Mar” exhibition; MNCN20.04/00170 .

Remarks

Dry specimen, previously identified as Parthenope sp. This is a specimen of considerable age, based on size and the quantity of tubiculous worms and scleractinian corals covering its carapace and chelipeds.

For identification, see also Tan & Ng (2007).

Figures

Fig. 51. Spinolambrus macrochelos (Herbst, 1790), specimen MNCN20.04/00170 inside a glass and wooden box. Scale bars = 1 cm.