Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean
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Zootaxa
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2022-06-02
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Pachygrapsus corrugatus
(von
Martens, 1872
)
(
Fig. 50A–F
)
Grapsus
(
Leptograpsus
)
corrugatus
von
Martens, 1872: 107
[
Type
locality:
Cuba
].
Trindade specimens.
3 ovigerous females (
MZUSP 40346
),
Trindade Island
,
Praia
da Calheta, J.B
. Mendonça coll.,
5.viii.2015
, rocky coast, low tide.
1 male
(
MZUSP 40237
),
1 male
(
MZUSP 40243
),
ibidem
,
20°30’29.5’’S
,
29°18’37.0”W
, J.B. Mendonça coll.,
13.xii.2017
, rock crevices, low tide.
1 male
(
MZUSP 40323
)
,
1 male
(
MZUSP 40334
), 1 ovigerous female (
MZUSP 40328
),
ibidem
,
J.B. Mendonça
coll.,
20.xi.2017
, low tide
.
1 male
(
MZUSP 40263
)
,
3 males
(
2 juveniles
) (
MZUSP 40261
),
ibidem
,
J.B. Mendonça
coll.,
2.xii.2017
, rocky tide pool
.
1 female
(
MZUSP 39617
)
,
1 juvenile
female (
MZUSP 39618
),
ibidem
,
J.B. Mendonça
coll.,
20.vii.2018
, rocky coast, low tide
.
2 males
(
1 juvenile
) (
MZUSP 33823
),
ibidem
,
20°30’28.89’’S
,
29°18’37.76”W
,
J.B. Mendonça
coll.,
27.iv.2014
, rocky coast.
1 juvenile
female (
MZUSP 41262
),
ibidem
,
20°30’29.5’’S
,
29°18’37.0”W
, J.B. Mendonça coll.,
21.vi.2016
,
12.5 m
.
1 soft-shelled female (
MZUSP 33835
),
ibidem
,
Praia
dos Andradas
/
Tartarugas
,
20°31’03.8’’S
,
29°18’08.4’’W
, J.B. Mendonça coll.,
20.iv.2014
, rocky coast, low tide.
1 male
(
MZUSP 33825
)
,
1 male
(
MZUSP 40349
),
ibidem
,
20°29’53.9’’S
,
29°19’24.1’’W
,
J.B. Mendonça
coll.,
12.iv.2014
, rocky coast, low tide. 1 ovigerous female,
1 juvenile
female (
MZUSP 40351
),
ibidem
,
Ponta Norte
,
Crista do Galo
,
20°29’22.1’’S
,
29°20’03.1”W
, J.B. Mendonça coll.,
19.iv.2014
, among rocks, low tide.
3 males
(
2 juveniles
), 1 ovigerous female (
MZUSP 40262
),
ibidem
,
J.B. Mendonça
coll.,
16.vi.2016
, rocky tide pool,
1.5 m
.
1 male
(
MZUSP 40324
),
ibidem
,
Praia
das Tartarugas
,
20°31’11.6’’S
,
29°18’0.6’’W
, J.B. Mendonça coll.,
15.xi.2017
, rocky tide pool,
1.5 m
.
Size of largest male: cl
17.5 mm
, cw
19 mm
; largest female: cl
13 mm
, cw
14.9 mm
.
FIGURE 50.
A–F,
Pachygrapsus corrugatus
(von
Martens, 1872
)
. A, B, Male, cl 14.5 mm, cw 16.1 mm (MZUSP 40237). C, D, Male, cl 15.3 mm, cw 17.5 mm (MZUSP 40243). E, F, Ovigerous female, cl 11.1 mm, cw 13.3 mm (MZUSP 40351). Habitus, dorsal (A, C, E) and ventral (B, D, F) aspects. Note in (B, E) longitudinal striae on the lateral face of the cheliped propodus (arrows). Photographs by A. Pol.
Comparative material examined.
Pachygrapsus corrugatus
: Caribbean Sea
: 1 ovigerous female (
USNM
72340),
Virgin Islands
,
Saint Croix
, Judith Fancy Bay, H.A. Beatty coll., 1935–1936, on coastal rocks, M.J. Rath-
coll.,
17.ix.1979
, L.B. Holthuis det.
Ascension Island
:
1 male
(
USNM 252325
),
South of Collyer Point
, adjacent to Cable and
Wireless Beach, R.B
. Manning coll.,
25.v.1971
, intertidal rocky flat around blow-hole,
R.B. Manning
det.
Distribution.
Bahamas
,
Cuba
,
Puerto Rico
,
Virgin Islands
,
Brazil
(São Pedro and
São Paulo
Archipelago and Trindade) (
Rathbun 1918
;
Manning 1963
;
Chace & Hobbs 1969
;
Holthuis 1980
;
Poupin
et al.
2005
). This is the first record of
P. corrugatus
from Trindade. Central Atlantic:
Ascension Island
(
Manning & Chace 1990
).
Ecological notes.
Rare,
P. corrugatus
inhabits rocky coasts where it is found on pink algal encrustations, rock pools and rocky tide pools (São Pedro and
São Paulo
). In Trindade it occurred in the intertidal zone among rocks, on rock crevices, and rocky tide pools.
Remarks.
Poupin
et al.
(2005)
commented on the resemblance between
Pachygrapsus corrugatus
and the west and central Pacific
P. fakaravensis
Rathbun, 1907
, and clarified that both species can be separated by the more pronounced striation of the pleonal somites in
P.
fakaravensis
, which also has striae on the thoracic sternites, absent in
P. corrugatus
.
Pachygrapsus corrugatus
differs from the southwestern Atlantic
P. gracilis
and
P. transversus
in several aspects, including by having the carapace distinctly subquadrate and longitudinal striae on the lateral face of the P1 propodus (already present in the juveniles, such as MZUSP 40261) (
Fig. 50A–F
). Contrary,
P. gracilis
and
P. transversus
have the lateral margins of the carapace convergent posteriorly and lack the striae on the P1 propodus.