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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Cyclograpsus integer
H.
Milne Edwards, 1837
Fig. 14 A, B, C, D
Cyclograpsus integer
H.
Milne Edwards, 1837: 79
[type-locality:
Brazil
;
type
in MNHN].—Rathbun 1900: 18; 1918: 326, figs. 1 & 2, Pl. 97; 1933: 92, fig. 86.
Hartnoll 1965: 114
, 115, 141, 143, 144.
Griffin 1968: 243
, fig. 4 h.
Chace & Hobbs 1969: 173
, figs. 55, 58 b–d.
Keith 1985: 272
, fig. 11 C.
Melo 1996: 465
, unnumbered figure.
Coelho
et al.
2008: 41
.
Ng
et al.
2008: 226
.—
García & Capote 2015: 19
, fig. 9 c.
Poupin 2018: 228
, fig. 261.
Mantelatto
et al.
2020: 25
, fig. 8 A.
Cyclograpsus occidentalis
A.
Milne-Edwards, 1878: 228
[type-locality:
Cape Verde
Islands].
Cyclograpsus parvulus
De Man, 1896: 350
.
Material examined.
Barbados
,
Sherman’s
St.
Peter
, rocky shore, 13̊ 16’67.5” N–59̊ 38’42.08” W,
2 ♂
CW: 10.4; 8.0 mm (
BLSZ 072
)
.
Barbados
,
St. Peters Bay
,
St. Peter
, rocky shore, 13̊ 16’67.5” N–59̊ 38’42.08” W,
1 ♀
(ovig),
1 ♀
,
1 ♂
CW: 10.7; 9.5;
9.4 mm
(
BLSZ 073
)
.
Idem,
1 ♂
CW:
0.8 mm
(
BLSZ 191
;
MZUSP 40919
)
.
Distribution.
Cyclograpsus integer
is found in the Western and Eastern Atlantic and Eastern Pacific. In the Western Atlantic:
Bermuda
, Florida, San
Salvador Island
,
Cuba
,
Jamaica
,
Dominican Republic
,
Puerto Rico
, St. Thomas,
St. Martin
, St. Croix,
Dominica
, Guadeloupe,
Barbados
(present study), Isla de Cubagua,
Tortuga
, Los Roques, and
Brazil
. In Eastern Atlantic: from
Senegal
to the Congo. In Eastern Pacific:
China
,
Taiwan
, and Pacific Islands (
Hartnoll 1965
;
Chace & Hobbs 1969
;
Ng 2006
;
Poupin 2018
).
Distribution in
Barbados
.
Cattlewash, St. Peter’s Bay, and Sherman’s [
Table 1
(Site #s: 5, 24 & 26)].
Habitat in
Barbados
.
Rocky shores; under debris, 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.
Cyclograpsus integer
was found along with the species
Geograpsus lividus
; in most cases, they were collected under the same rock or debris. This species is active during the daytime. One female (ovig) was collected in
March 2019
.
Remarks.
There are several morphological variations seen in the specimens of
Cyclograpsus integer
from the Western Atlantic and
East Asia
. These variations in morphology seem to indicate that there may be two forms of this species, the east Asian morphotype and the American morphotype. According to
Ng (2006: 502)
the Asian form differs from the American form by having a very convex anterolateral margin, a distinctly converging posterolateral margin, distinct epigastric cristae, and ambulatory legs that are broad and stout. In the American form, the anterolateral margin is less convex, the posterolateral margin is subparallel, epigastric cristae are not distinct, and the ambulatory legs are slender and narrow.
Cyclograpsus integer
can be identified by the presence of alternating bands of short setae on the propodus and dactylus of walking legs; the third and fourth pereiopods are longer than others (
Griffin 1968
).