Updated checklist of semi-terrestrial and estuarine crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of Barbados, West Indies
Author
Parasram, Nadeshinie
0000-0002-5040-5781
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences nadeshinie. parasram @ mycavehill. uwi. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5040 - 5781
nadeshinie.parasram@mycavehill.uwi.edu
Author
Santana, William
Laboratory of Systematic Zoology (LSZ), Universiadade Regional do Cariri (URCA), Crato, CE, Brazil.
Author
Vallès, Henri
0000-0002-7947-2742
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences nadeshinie. parasram @ mycavehill. uwi. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5040 - 5781 & henri. valles @ cavehill. uwi. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7947 - 2742
henri.valles@cavehill.uwi.edu
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-18
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Geograpsus lividus
(H.
Milne Edwards, 1837
)
Fig. 10 A, B
Grapsus brevipes
H.
Milne Edwards, 1853:170
[type-locality: Antilles].
Geograpsus occidentalis
Stimpson, 1860: 230
[type-localities: Cabo San Lucas,
Estado de Baja California
,
Mexico
].
Orthograpsus hillii
Kingsley, 1880: 194
[type-localities:
West Indies
and Key West,
Florida
].
Geograpsus lividus
—H. Milne-Edwards 1837:85. Rathbun 1900: 16; 1918: 232, pl. 55; 1920: 18; 1921: 77; 1933: 87, fig. 80, pl. 21.
Hartnoll 1965
: 113,114, 141,144.
Chace & Hobbs 1969: 157
, fig. 48.
Keith 1985: 270
, fig. 10 B.
Melo 1996: 448
, unnumbered figure.
Coelho
et al.
2008: 41
.
Ng
et al.
2008: 216
.
García & Capote 2015: 17
, fig. 8a.
Poupin 2018: 224
.
Mantelatto
et al.
2020: 19
, fig. 6 A.
Material examined.
Barbados
,
St. Peters Bay
,
St. Peter
, rocky shores, 13̊ 24’70.75” N–59̊ 64’41.37” W,
1 ♀
,
1 ♂
CW: 14.4; 9.0 mm (
BLSZ 073
)
.
Barbados
,
Sherman’s
,
St. Peter
, rocky shore, 13̊ 16’67.5” N–59̊ 38’42.08” W,
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
CW: 15.5;
21.5 mm
(
BLSZ 011
)
.
Idem
,
1 ♂
CW:17.0 mm (
BLSZ 132
;
MZUSP 40919
)
.
Distribution.
Geograpsus lividus
is found in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific. In the Western Atlantic:
Bermudas
, Florida Keys, Gulf of Mexico, New Providence Island,
Cuba
,
Jamaica
,
Puerto Rico
, Isla de
Vieques
, St. Thomas, St. Croix,
St. Martin
, Saba, Guadeloupe, Isla de Aves,
Dominica
, Martinique,
St. Lucia
,
Barbados
,
Trinidad
, Margarita, Isla de Cubagua,
Tortuga
, Los Roques,
Bonaire
,
Curaçao
, Isla de Providencia,
Colombia
,
Venezuela
, and
Brazil
. In the Eastern Atlantic: from
Senegal
to northern
Angola
and
Cape Verde
. In the Eastern Pacific: Baja California to
Chile
, and Hawaii (
Rathbun 1918
;
Chace & Hobbs 1969
;
Melo 1996
;
Poupin 2018
).
Distribution in
Barbados
.
Cattlewash, St. Peter’s Bay, and Sherman’s [
Table 1
(Site #s: 5, 24 & 26)].
Habitat in
Barbados
.
Rocky shore under debris and fragmented coral rocks (diameter size:
4–20 cm
), and cobble rocks (diameter size:
10–50 cm
) in supralittoral zones (
Fig. 2A
: C, D).
Ecological notes.
Specimens of
Geograpsus lividus
were collected in the same habitat as
Cyclograpsus integer
during the daytime. The crab can be often seen scurrying to seek shelter under the same rock/cobble or pile of debris as
Cyclograpsus integer
.
Remarks.
The Barbados-Antigua Expedition (1918), collected
one female
from Pelican Island,
Barbados
. This specimen is stored at USNM (Catalogue # 75247). According to
Rathbun (1921)
, this species is nocturnal; however,
Geograpsus lividus
was collected during the day in the present study. Pelican Island no longer exists in
Barbados
as it was incorporated into the Deep-Water Harbor complex in 1961. Additionally, one (1) male specimen was deposited at the USNM (Catalogue # 76563) by G.S. Miller; this specimen was collected from
Barbados
in 1924.