Gecarcinus ruricola ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Parasram, Nadeshinie, Santana, William & Vallès, Henri, 2021, Updated checklist of semi-terrestrial and estuarine crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of Barbados, West Indies, Zootaxa 5052 (4), pp. 451-485 : 467-468

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.4.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5579024

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scientific name

Gecarcinus ruricola ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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Gecarcinus ruricola ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Fig. 9 A, B, C, D View FIGURE 9

Ocypode tourlourou Latrielle, 1803: 36 [type-locality: Dominican Republic].

Gecarcinus agricola Reichenbach, 1828: 230 View in CoL [adapted from Rathbun, 1918].

Ocypode rubra Fréminville, 1835: 22 [type-locality: Antilles].

Cancer ruricola Linnaeus, 1758: 626 View Cited Treatment [type-locality: America].

Gecarcinus ruricola View in CoL — Rathbun 1918: 352, pls. 117, 118; 1920: 19. Chace & Hobbs 1969: 200, figs. 66 & 67 h–j. Keith 1985: 276, fig. 12 B. Ng et al. 2008: 215. García & Capote 2015: 16, figs. 7 m – 7 p. Guinot et al. 2018: 571, fig. 7 A–D. Poupin 2018: 223, fig. 254.

Material examined. Barbados, Crane Hotel , St. Philip, coastal cliffs, 13̊ 10’25.96” N–59̊ 44’65.73” W, 2 ♂, 1 ♀ CW: 100.2; 80.2; 80.2 mm ( BLSZ 059 ) . Idem , 1 ♀ CW: 80.2 mm ( BLSZ 059 ; MZUSP 40855 View Materials ) .

Distribution. Gercarcinus ruricola is found in the Western Atlantic: Bahamas, Southern Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Cayman Islands, St. Croix, St. Matin, St. Barthélemy, Saba, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Blanquilla, Bonaire, Curaçao, and Aruba (Chance & Hobbs 1969; Poupin 2018).

Distribution in Barbados. Crane and Bottom Bay [ Table 1 View TABLE 1 (Site #s: 9 & 10)].

Habitat in Barbados. Coastal cliff under dry leaves and in coral limestone rock crevices ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 : E, F).

Ecological notes. Gecarcinus ruricola was collected in a clifftop that is 70 m in elevation from the beach. Here, the crabs were found hiding under piles of dry leaves from the tree Tabebuia pallida (Lindl.) Mier. Molts of the carapace and pereopods were collected ~ 150 m inland from the sea among crevices of large coral limestone formations.

Remarks. Rathbun (1918) reported one specimen, collected by Theodore N. Gill, which is stored at the USNM under the accession number (2065). Because of its large size, Gecarcinus ruricola is also targeted by local commercial and subsistence fisheries in Barbados. However, they are sold and consumed less often than Cardisoma guanhumi or Callinectes spp. because they seem to be less abundant (N. Parasram, Pers. Obs.). We were unsuccessful in locating the work of Reichenbach (1828). Therefore, the location of the synonym Gecarcinus agricola in the publication by Reichenbach (1828) was adapted from Rathbun (1918).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Gecarcinidae

Genus

Gecarcinus

Loc

Gecarcinus ruricola ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Parasram, Nadeshinie, Santana, William & Vallès, Henri 2021
2021
Loc

Ocypode tourlourou

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