Podochela grossipes 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 grossipes Stimpson, 1860

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Podochela grossipes Stimpson, 1860: 195 (type locality: St Thomas). — A. Milne-Edwards 1873-1880: 190 ( St Thomas, St Lucia). — Aurivillius 1889: 34 ( Martinique). — Doflein 1899: 178 ( Martinique). — Rathbun 1925: 45 ( St Thomas, Martinique, St Lucia). — Monod 1939: 561 ( Guadeloupe). — Coelho 2006: 685 ( Guadeloupe).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4193, st. GB01, 6 m ; 3♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4129 (lot JL669-1), st. GD 16, 10 m; 1 ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4119 (lot JL619-2), st. GD 17, 30 m; 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4135 (lot JL1303), st. GD 50, 22 m; 1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-5072 (lot JL434-3), st. GR 12, 21 m; 1 ♀, MNHN-IU-2013-4121 (lot JL512), st. GR 14, 27 m; 2 ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4172 (lot JL891-5), st. GS 20, 19 m; 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-4210 (lot JL888), st. GS 21, 14 m; 1♂ MNHN- IU-2013-4613 (lot JL1514), st. GS 39, 16 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Rostrum short, triangular, acute. Last two pairs of legs with the penultimate article short, strongly curved, and the dactylus when closed forming an oval gape.

HABITAT. — Between algae, on the seagrass Halophila stipulacea , on rocky sublittoral with sessile epifauna. Collected 6-30 m, reported to 37 m.

DISTRIBUTION ( Coelho 2006). — Western Atlantic. Colombia, Venezuela. Lesser Antilles VI ( St Thomas), ICA (St Martin*, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia). *St Martin from unpublished fieldwork (UF31985-86, 12.IV.2012, coll. A. Anker/G. Paulay).

REMARK

This species seems to be common in the Lesser Antilles (ICA), already reported from several islands.

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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.