Comprehensive Description
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Xaiva biguttata (Risso, 1816)
Xaiva biguttata.—Monod, 1956:168, fig. 195 [Cape Verde Islands].—Guinot, 1967a:253 [Indian Ocean; listed].—Zariquiey Alvarez, 1968:359, figs. 8d, 116c, 122b [Spain; references].—Kensley, 1970:182 [South-West Africa].—Penrith and Kensley, 1970b:248, 261 [South-West Africa].
SYNONYMS.—Platyonichus nasutus Latreille, 1828; Portumnoides garstangi Bohn, 1901.
DISTRIBUTION.—Eastern Atlantic, from England southward to the Cape Verde Islands, South-West Africa, South Africa, and the Mediterranean, in shallow water.
- bibliographic citation
- Manning, Raymond B. and Holthuis, L. B. 1981. "West African Brachyuran crabs." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-379. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.306
