Calappa ocellata Holthuis, 1958

Parasram, Nadeshinie, Santana, William & Vallès, Henri, 2023, Checklist of the shallow-water marine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Barbados, West Indies, Zootaxa 5314 (1), pp. 1-62 : 13

Calappa ocellata Holthuis, 1958

( Fig. 5A )

Guaja apara Marcgraf, 1648: 182

Guáia-Apara Piso, 1658: 75.

Cancer flosculosus, Amboinesis , rarior, elegantissimus Seba, 1761: 41, pl. 19, fig. 13.

Calappa flammea .—Herbst, 1796: 161, tab. 40, fig. 2; Bosc 1830: 215; Rathbun 1902: 84, pl. 2; Verrill 1908: 420 (p.p), pl. 25, fig. 1; Rathbun 1919: 331; 1936: 388; 1937: 198, not pl. 59, not pl. 60, fig. 1 [not Cancer flammeus Herbst, 1794 ].

Calappa ocellata Holthuis, 1958: 147 , 158–166, tab. 14, figs. 36–40 [type locality: Bonaire; holotype: Ô, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, RMNH1223]; Williams 1984: 275, figs. 206–207; Abele & Kim 1986: 466, 472–473; Melo 1996: 126, unnumbered fig.; Ng et al. 2008: 48; Poupin, 2018: 175, fig. 186; Mantelatto et al. 2020: 12 , figs. 36–40.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (North Carolina to Florida), Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Gulf of Mexico, St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix, St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Saba, St. Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Isla de Margarita, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, and Brazil ( Holthuis 1958; Poupin 2018; Mantelatto et al. 2020; present study).

Material examined. Barbados, Carlisle Bay , St. Michael, subtidal, 13°05’07.15”N, 59°36’36.90”W, 1 ♀ CW: 74.3 mm ( BLSZ 118 ) .

Remarks. This is the first record of Calappa ocellata from Barbados. This specimen was collected by hand in subtidal habitat (~ 4 m deep) on sandy bottom. Calappa ocellata is abundant in the Carlisle Bay area on the south coast of Barbados (N. Parasram, pers. obs.). Rathbun (1921: 66) reported Calappa angusta A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 and Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803) for Barbados, which were collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition in 1918. One juvenile specimen of Calappa angusta was collected at Pelican Island and additional specimens were collected by the steamers “Hassler” at 180 m (100 fathoms) and “Blake” at 185 m (103 fathoms; USNM 77290). The taxonomy of Calappa angusta has been revised by Williams (1988: 109–112; fig. 3) with the species transferred to the genus Cyclozodion . One female specimen of Calappa gallus was collected from Pelican Island by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition in 1918. Pelican Island no longer exists in Barbados as it was incorporated into the Deep-Water Harbour complex in 1961.

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FIGURE 5. Superfamilies Calappoidea De Haan, 1883 and Eriphioidea MacLeay, 1838, dorsal habitus: A, Calappa ocellata Holthuis, 1958 (BLSZ 118), female, cw 74.3 mm; B, Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781), female (juv.), cw 21.1 mm (BLSZ 243). Scale bars: 20 mm.