Pitho mirabilis (Herbst, 1794)

Carmona-Suárez, Carlos & Poupin, Joseph, 2016, Majoidea crabs from Guadeloupe Island, with a documented list of species for the Lesser Antilles (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea), Zoosystema 38 (3), pp. 353-387 : 376-377

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Cancer mirabilis Herbst, 1794 (1782-1804): 152 (type locality: not indicated).

Pitho mirabilis – Rathbun 1925: 366 ( Guadeloupe). — Rodríguez 1980: 273 ( Guadeloupe, Curaçao).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4442 (lot JL1425-1), st. GB 32, 4 m ; 2 ♂ MNHN-

IU-2013-4415 (lot JL1499-3), 1 ♀ juv. MNHN-IU-2013-5949 (lot JL1509-2), st. GB 36, 16 m; 1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-5965 (lot JL300), st. GR06, 15 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Carapace swollen, as broad as long, covered with fine bead granules. Lateral teeth diminishing in size from the anterior to the posterior, their edges denticulate.

HABITAT. — Thalassia beds and other aquatic vegetation, soft substrate, rubble. Collected 4-16 m, reported previously 1-‘shallow’ m

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Atlantic. Florida Keys, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Venezuela. Lesser Antilles ICA (St Martin*, Guadeloupe), IOV ( Curaçao). *St Martin from unpublished fieldwork (UF31923, 2012, det. A. Anker).

References

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LATREILLE P. A. 1825 - 1828. - Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Encyclopedie Methodique. Vol. 10. Paris: Agasse Imprimeur- Libraire: 1 - 832.

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RATHBUN M. J. 1925. - The spider crabs of America. Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum 129: i-xx, 1 - 613, figs 1 - 153, pls 1 - 283.

RODRIGUEZ G. 1980. - Crustaceos Decapodos de Venezuela. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas: 1 - 494, figs 1 - 119, pls 1 - 70.

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STIMPSON W. 1871. - Preliminary report on the Crustacea dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits of Florida by L. F. de Pourtales, Assist. U. S. Coast Survey. Part I. Brachyura. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 2: 109 - 160.

WINDSOR A. & FELDER D. L. 2014. - Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomic reanalysis of the family Mithracidae MacLeay (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea). Invertebrate Systematics 28: 145 - 173, figs 1 - 4, http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 13011.

Figures

FIG. 8. — Mithracidae (Windsor & Felder, 2014): A, Nemausa cornuta (Saussure, 1857), 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4433, st. GR33, 9 m; B, Nemausa?cornuta, 1 juv. MNHN-IU-2013-6787, st. GD64, 60 m; C, Nemausa acuticornis (Stimpson, 1871), Martinique, 1♂ coll. R. Ferry, n°52 BIOSPHERES Fort de France, XI.2015; D, Omalacantha antillensis (Rathbun, 1920), 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4420 (lot JL1499-7), st. GB36, 16 m; E, Omalacantha bicornuta (Latreille, 1825), 1 ♂ MNHN- IU-2013-6622, st. GM10, 1 m; F, Pitho aculeata (Gibbes, 1850), 1 ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-6731, st. GB29, 2 m; G, Pitho?laevigata (or P. lherminieri [Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm,1867]),1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4760, st.GM06,1 m;H, Pitho lherminieri, 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4536, st.GR50,4 m; I, Pitho mirabilis (Herbst,1794), 1 ♀ juv.MNHN-IU-2013-5949, st. GB36,16 m; J, Teleophrys ruber (Stimpson, 1871), 1 ♂ no MNHN (lot JL125), st. GR03, 6 m; K, Thoe puella Stimpson,1860,1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4256 (lot JL489-5), st. GM09, 1 m. Majidae Samouelle, 1819: L, Temnonotus granulosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, 1 ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4422, no station number,coll. D. Lamy,trap 300 m; M, Thersandrus compressus (Desbonne,in Desbonne & Schramm,1867), 1♀ juv.MNHN-IU-2013-5915, st.GR14,27 m.