Homola barbata
{{Short description|Species of crab}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = FMIB_35514_Homola_barbata.jpeg
| genus = Homola
| species = barbata
| authority = (Fabricius, 1793)
| synonyms_ref = {{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2008 |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |author=Peter K. L. Ng |author2=Danièle Guinot |author3=Peter J. F. Davie |name-list-style=amp |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}
| synonyms =
- Cancer barbatus Fabricius, 1793
- Cancer cubicus Forskål, 1775 (suppressed)
- Cancer novemdecos Sulzer, 1776 (suppressed)
- Dorippe fronticornis Lamarck in White, 1847 (nomen nudum)
- Thelxiope palpigera Rafinesque, 1814
- Homola spinifrons Leach, 1815
- Dorippe spinosus Risso, 1816
}}
Homola barbata is a species of crab in the family Homolidae.
Description
They usually have squarish carapaces with forward-pointing spines along the upper front edges.{{cite book |author=Michael Wright |author2=Giles Sparrow |name-list-style=amp |year=2003 |title=Marine Life |series=Expert Guide |publisher=Amber Books |location=White Lion Street, London |isbn=1-897884-90-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/expertguidemarin0000wrig }} The animal's chelipeds are shorter than their other legs (the back pair are short, thin and doubled back on themselves). The animal's carapace grows to {{convert|2|in|sp=us}} long.
Ecology
Distribution
In the eastern part of its range, Homola barbata is found in the Mediterranean Sea and into the North Atlantic. In the western part of its range, H. barbata is found from Virginia southwards, through the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies, along the coasts of Central and South America to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.{{cite journal|author=Giovana Bertini|author2=Adilson Fransozo|author3=Gustavo A. S. de Melo|name-list-style=amp |year=2004 |title=Biodiversity of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from non-consolidated sublittoral bottom on the northern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil |journal=Biodiversity and Conservation |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=2185–2207 |url=http://200.145.44.2/docente/artigos/giovana_biodiversity.pdf |format=PDF |doi=10.1023/B:BIOC.0000047900.96123.34 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
References
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Category:Crabs of the Atlantic Ocean