Checklist of the shallow-water marine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Barbados, West Indies
Author
Parasram, Nadeshinie
0000-0002-5040-5781
nadeshinie.parasram@mycavehill.uwi.edu
Author
Santana, William
0000-0003-3086-4419
willsantana@gmail.com
Author
Vallès, Henri
0000-0002-5040-5781
nadeshinie.parasram@mycavehill.uwi.edu
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-07-05
5314
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
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Chorinus heros
(Herbst, 1790)
(
Fig. 7B
)
Cancer heros
Herbst, 1790
: pl. 18, fig. 102; 1796:165, pl. 42, fig. 1 [type-locality: “Der Ocean”;
type
in Museum f̧r Naturkunde, Berlin].
Chorinus heros
.
—H.
Milne Edwards, 1834: 315
;
Schomburgk 1848: 655
; Desbonne
in
Desbonne & Schramm 1867: 18
; A.
Milne-Edwards 1873: 86
;
Rathbun 1897: 5
;
1901: 61
;
1921: 81
;
1925: 306–307
;
1933: 20
, fig. 21;
Melo 1996: 254
, unnumbered fig.;
García & Capote 2015: 7
, fig.
3 m
;
Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016: 356
;
Poupin 2018: 183
.
Distribution.
Western Atlantic:
USA
(Florida),
Jamaica
,
Puerto Rico
, St. Croix,
Guadeloupe
,
Martinique
,
Barbados
,
Isla
de Margarita,
Isla
de Cubagua, and
Brazil
(
Rathbun 1897
,
1933
;
Poupin 2018
).
Material examined.
Barbados
,
Batts Rock
,
St. Michael
, subtidal,
13°08’04.81”N
,
59°38’12.30”W
, 3 Ô CW
:
8.7, 9.8,
7.4 mm
(
BLSZ 045
).
Reeds
Bay
,
St. James
, subtidal,
13°13’09.10”N
,
59°38’32.44”W
, 1 Ô CW: 10.0 mm (
MZUSP 40897
)
.
Remarks.
Specimens of
Chorinus heros
were caught in crab traps that were placed on rocky bottoms (~
4 m
deep) on the west coast of
Barbados
.
Chorinus heros
was first reported for
Barbados
by
Schomburgk (1848: 655)
. This was followed by the report by A.
Milne-Edwards (1873: 86)
of
Chorinus heros
for
Barbados
.
Rathbun (1921: 81)
reported
one immature
female specimen collected at Pelican Island by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition in 1918 (USNM 72988). Additionally,
Rathbun (1925: 306–307)
reported
one male
specimen of
Chorinus heros
as collected from
Barbados
by N.T. Gill; this specimen is stored at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ 1268).
FIGURE 7.
Superfamily
Majoidea Samouelle, 1819
, dorsal habitus: A,
Acanthonyx petiverii
H.
Milne Edwards, 1834
, female, cw 0.4 mm (BLSZ 258); B,
Chorinus heros
(Herbst, 1790)
, female, cw 9.8 mm (BLSZ 045). Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B = 5 mm.
Genus
Macrocoeloma
Miers, 1879