Podochela macrodera Stimpson, 1860

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 : 364

Podochela macrodera Stimpson, 1860

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Podochela macrodera Stimpson, 1860: 196 (type localities: St Thomas and Key Biscayne, Florida). — A. Milne-Edwards 1873-1880: 191 ( St Thomas, Guadeloupe). — Rathbun 1894: 50 ( St Thomas); 1924b: 19 ( Curaçao); 1925: 44 ( St Thomas, St Martin, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Curaçao). — Coelho 2006: 685 ( St Thomas). — Rodríguez 1980: 271 ( Curaçao). — Marcano & Bolaños 2001: 72 (Cubagua). — Hernández-Ávila et al. 2007: 44 (Cubagua).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4118 (lot JL619-1), st. GD 17, 30 m ; 1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-13086 (lot JL1287-2), st. GD 51, 15 m; 1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-6613 ( JL649 ), st. GM 11, 1 m ; 1 ♂ MNHN- IU-2013-4212, st. GS05, 22 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Rostrum short, thick, sub triangular. Fingers of adult male widely gaping. Distal ends of propodites of ambulatory legs curved.

HABITAT. — In algae Halophila stipulacea , Thalassia and corals. Collected 1-30 m; reported to 91 m.

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Atlantic. Florida, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Honduras. Lesser Antilles VI ( St Thomas), ICA (St Martin, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe), IOV (Cubagua, Curaçao).

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FIG. 3. — Inachidae MacLeay, 1838: A, Ericerodes gracilipes (Stimpson, 1871), 1 ov. ♀ 8.3 × 4.8 mm MNHN-IU-2013-4199, st. GD35, 66 m; B, Eucinetops blakianus Rathbun, 1896, 1 ov. ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4191, st. GB01, 6 m; C, Podochela curvirostris (A. Milne-Edwards, 1879), 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-19105? KARUB- ENTHOS 2015, st. CP4623, 26/06/2015, 15°55.72’N, 61°31.02’W, 182-217 m; D, Podochela grossipes Stimpson, 1860, 1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4135, st. GD50, 22 m; E, Podochela macrodera Stimpson, 1860, 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-6613, st. GM11, 1 m. Stenorhynchinae Dana, 1851; F, Stenorhynchus seticornis (Herbst, 1788),1 ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4062, st. GR01, 3 m; G, Stenorhynchus yangi Goeke, 1989, 1 sp. no MNHN (lot JL314), st. GN11, 140 m. Inachoididae (Guinot, 2012): H, I, Aepinus septemspinosus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878),1 ♀ ov. 5.8 × 4.1 mm MNHN-IU-2013-11301, st. GD02,80 m; J, Collodes trispinosus Stimpson 1891, 1♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4197 (lot JL973-1), st. GD35, 66 m; K, Euprognatha gracilipes A. Milne-Edwards,1878, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-19060? KARUBENTHOS 2015, st. DW4613, 25/06/2015, 16°24.16’N, 60°50.1’W, 210-240 m; L, Euprognatha rastellifera Stimpson, 1871, 1♂ 8.4 × 6.2 mm MNHN-IU-2013-4120, st. GD17, 30 m; M, Pyromaia acanthina Lemaitre, N. H. Campos & Bermúdez, 2001, 1 ♀ ov. 12.9 (without rostrum) × 8.8 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-5931, st. GN04, 150 m.