Epialtus longirostris 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 : 356

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n3a5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4579254
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scientific name	Epialtus longirostris Stimpson, 1860
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Epialtus longirostris Stimpson, 1860 View in CoL

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Epialtus longirostris Stimpson, 1860: 199 View in CoL (type locality: St Thomas). — A. Milne-Edwards 1873-1880: 141 ( St Thomas). — Rathbun 1925: 150 ( St Thomas).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-5967 (lot JL440), st. GR 12, 21 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Rostrum narrow, truncate at tip. Sides of carapace deeply bilobed. Arms long and cylindrical, hand with thick fingers. On live specimens there is a distinctive triangular white mask on dorso-posterior surface of carapace ( Fig. 2D View FIG ).

HABITAT. — On hard bottom, aquatic vegetation, epibionts. Collected 21 m, reported 3- 54 m.

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Atlantic. Florida, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica. Lesser Antilles VI ( St Thomas), ICA (St Martin*, Guadeloupe). *St Martin from unpublished fieldwork (24.IV.2012, UF32509, UF32510).

REMARK

Type-locality is Lesser Antilles ( St Thomas) but this a first record for Guadeloupe Island.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Epialtidae
Genus	Epialtus