Goniopsis cruentata (Latreille, 1803)

Grapsus longipes Randall, 1840: 125, Suriname [“supposed to have been brought from Surinam by Dr. Herring”]. Accepted as Goniopsis cruentata (Latreille, 1803) in WoRMS (2023).

Goniopsis cruentatus – Kingsley 1880: 1990, Suriname [“Dr Herring, Randall’s type of G. longipes ”]. — Young 1900: 278, Suriname. — Holthuis 1959a: 235, Suriname [“Probably the first Suriname record of this species is that by Fermin (1765) who speaks of ‘le Crabe marbré, dont la tête est lisse & parsemée de différentes couleurs’ ...”]. — Buranelli & Mantelatto 2019: tab. 1, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá.

Goniopsis cruentata – Amouroux & Tavares 2005: 74, tab. 1, French Guiana; 2012: 160, French Guiana. — Aschenbroich et al. 2016: 66, fig. 6, French Guiana.

non Pachygrapsus corrugatus (von Martens, 1872) – Corbari et al. 2015: 165–167, French Guiana [from Iles du Salut 2014 Expedition, stn SM04, shoreline, 01/10/2014, MNHN-IU-2014-8309 at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2014-8309] = Goniopsis cruentata instead, re-determination D. Felder, for this work.

Distribution/Habitat

WA; terrestrial (mangrove).