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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Callinectes danae
Smith
, 1869
Fig. 5 A, B
Callinectes diacanthus
Latrielle, 1825: 190
.—
Ordway, 1863: 575
[not
C. diacanthus
Latrielle 1825
]. A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, p. 226 [var. of
C. diacanthus
]. Young, 1900: 186 (pro part).
Lupa dicantha
Dana, 1852: 272
, [
type
:
1 ♂
, dry,
USNM 2371
,
Rio de Janeiro
,
Brazil
]; 1855, pl. 16, fig. 7a–c.
Callinectes danae
Smith, 1869: 7
[
syntypes
:
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
, MCZ 5143;
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
, YPM 824, Recife,
Pernambuco
,
Brazil
, C.F. Hartt (coll.)].—
Rathbun 1896: 357
: pl. 16; pl. 24, fig. 4; pl. 25, fig. 3; pl. 26, fig. 3; 1900: 48; 1930: 118, figs. 15 d, 16 b, 17 b, 18 d, Pl. 51; 1933: 49.
Chace & Hobbs 1969: 130
, fig. 37b.
Williams 1974: 746
, figs.
7, 18 e
, 20 e–f, 22 e, 24; 1984: 367, figs. 293 d, 295.
Melo 1996: 314
, unnumbered figure.
Coelho
et al.
2008: 28
.
Ng
et al.
2008: 150
.
Poupin 2018: 207
.
Mantelatto
et al
. 2020: 63
, fig.
18F.
Material examined.
Barbados
,
Long Pond
,
St. Andrew
, 13̊ 15’40.6” N–59̊ 33’22.94” W, coastal wetland,
1 ♂
CW:
75.4 mm
(
BLSZ 077
). Idem,
1 ♂
CW:
73.5 mm
(
BLSZ 093
)
.
Distribution.
Callinectes danae
is found in the Western Atlantic:
Bermuda
, Florida, Texas,
Mexico
,
Cuba
,
Jamaica
,
Haiti
,
Dominican Republic
,
Puerto Rico
, St. Thomas, St Croix, St Martin, Guadeloupe, Martinique,
St. Lucia
,
Barbados
,
Honduras
,
Panama
,
Trinidad
, Isla los Roques, Isla de Providencia, Margarita,
Tortuga
,
Curaçao
,
Aruba
,
Colombia
,
Venezuela
, and
Brazil
(
Rathbun 1930
;
Chace & Hobbs 1969
;
Williams 1974
;
Melo 1996
;
Poupin 2018
).
Distribution in
Barbados
.
Long Pond [
Table 1
(Site #s: 3)].
Habitat in
Barbados
.
Coastal wetland in brackish water river system with sandy and muddy bottoms. Collected near the mouth of the wetland at
0.5 m
depth, with salinity of ~ 25 ppt (
Fig. 2A
: A, B).
Ecological notes.
Specimens of
Callinectes danae
were collected both during the day and night using onion bag traps baited with chicken viscera (
Fig. 3A
).
Callinectes danae
does not appear to be as common as the other species of
Callinectes
in
Barbados
; during this study, only
two specimens
were collected: one in
January 2019
and the other in
February 2020
.
Callinectes danae
were caught along with
Callinectes bocourti
and
Callinectes sapidus
at the Long Pond wetland.
Remarks.
Rathbun (1930)
reported two (2) male specimens stored in the British Museum, collected by F. G. Beckford from
Barbados
; no collection date was provided by Rathbun.
Callinectes danae
can be identified by the shape of the four frontal teeth on the carapace; the submesial pair are smaller and more reduced than the lateral pair. The tips of male first gonopod reach past midpoint of sixth thoracic sternite (
Rathbun 1930
;
Williams 1974
;
Williams 1984
).