Majoidea crabs from Guadeloupe Island, with a documented list of species for the Lesser Antilles (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea) Author Carmona-Suárez, Carlos Centro de Ecología. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Carretera Panamericana, km. 11. Altos de Pipe. 1204 (Venezuela) ccarmona @ ivic. gob. ve ccarmona@ivic.gob.ve Author Poupin, Joseph Institut de Recherche de l’École navale, IRENav, BCRM de Brest, École navale du Poulmic, CC 600 - Lanvéoc, F- 29240 Brest cedex 09 (France) joseph. poupin @ ecole-navale. fr Published on 30 September 2016 text Zoosystema 2016 2016-09-30 38 3 353 387 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2016n3a5 journal article 10.5252/z2016n3a5 1638-9387 4578244 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3CB67803-6D84-4628-8EF5-D8281078FA16 Pelia mutica ( Gibbes, 1850 ) ( Fig. 2I ) Pisa mutica Gibbes, 1850: 171 ( type locality: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina ). Pelia mutica – Rathbun 1925: 278 ( St Thomas ). — Hernández-Ávila et al. 2007: table 1, Cubagua. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe . KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4612 (lot JL373a), st. GR 11, 13 m ; 1♀ ov. MNHN-IU-2013-5663, st. GB 36, 16 m . DIAGNOSIS. — Greatest width of carapace about two-thirds its greatest length. Outer margins of rostral horns either diverging anteriorly or parallel. HABITAT. — On rocky subtidal and sessile epifauna; on seagrass Halophila stipulacea . Also found on rubble or shell bottoms and inside large sponges. Collected 13-16 m , reported 1-51 m . DISTRIBUTION. — Western Atlantic. Massachusetts to west coast of Florida , Cuba , Puerto Rico . Lesser Antilles VI (St Thomas), ICA ( St Martin *, Guadeloupe, Martinique **), IOV ( Margarita , Cubagua ). * St Martin from unpublished fieldwork ( UF32010 , 13.IV.2012 ; coll. & photo A. Anker / G. Paulay ). ** Martinique from unpublished fieldwork ( XI/2015 , coll. R. Ferry / Y. Buske , det. J. Poupin , specimen in BIOSPHERES, University of Fort de France ) . REMARK First record for Guadeloupe . Pelia rotunda A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 ( Fig. 2J ) Pelia rotunda A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (1873-1880): 74 ( type locality: Desterro, Brazil ). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe . KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4609 (lot JL1067-4), st. GB 20, 16 m ; 1 ♂ MNHN- IU-2013-4419 (lot JL1499-6), 1 ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4419 (lot JL1507), 1♀ MNHN-IU-2013-5947 (lot JL1507), st. GB 36, 16 m ; 1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4875 (lot JL338), 1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-5963 (lot JL338), st. GR07, 24 m ; 1 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4876 (lot JL382), st. GR 11, 13 m ; 3♂ , 2 ov. ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-5927 (lot JL728), st. GR 23, 20 m . DIAGNOSIS. — Pelia mutica and P. rotunda are distinguished in this work following Rathbun (1925) , but the characters used to separate them are perhaps not of species level, as indicated by this author. In P. rotunda gastric and cardiac regions are more swollen, rostrum is more deflexed, width of carapace at hepatic regions relatively greater; spine at external angle of basal antennal article a little longer. HABITAT. — On subtidal coral reef slope, sometimes with sponges. Collected 16-24 m , reported 1- 190 m . DISTRIBUTION ( Melo 1996 ). — Western Atlantic. Brazil (from Pará to Rio Grande do Sul ), Uruguay , and Argentina . Lesser Antilles ICA ( Guadeloupe ). REMARK First record for Guadeloupe and the Caribbean Sea. Typelocality Desterro, Brazil .