Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Charybdis

Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867)

15 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Sakai (2004, CD), ABRS (Internet), MASDEA/AfReMas (Internet) - Océan tropical mondial. Atlantique occidental, Méditerranée, Mer Rouge, Afrique orientale, Mozambique, Afrique du Sud, Comores, Mayotte, Madagascar, Golfe Persique, Pakistan, Inde, Sri Lanka, Iles Andaman, Malaisie, Thailande, Indonésie, Taiwan, Chine, Japon, Philippines, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Hawaii. - Felder et al. (2009) - Atlantic - 0-50 m. SCar–GMx–Brazil, Med, Ind-Pac

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-75 m

Mayotte data
Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) — Crosnier, 1962: 78, fig. 133-5, pl. V fig. 1, Europa, Madagascar, Mayotte. - Guinot, 1967: 255, liste, with Mayotte — IWP, Red Sea, South Africa to Hawaii, New Caledonia, invasive in Mediterranea, Western Atlantic (e.g. Ferry et al., 2017), subtidal to 75 m.

Europa data
Charybdis (Charybdis) helleri - Crosnier, 1962 : 78, fig. 133-5, pl. V fig. 1, Europa, Madagascar, Mayotte. - Guinot, 1967 : 245, liste avec Europa.

New Caledonia data
Lagon 12 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW975 — Moosa MK.
Musorstom 4 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW231 — Moosa MK.
Lagon 12 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW966 — Moosa MK.
Lagon 12 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW928 — Moosa MK.
Lagon 12 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW967 — Moosa MK.
Nouvelle Caledonie, CH1 — Moosa MK.
Nouvelle Caledonie, CP2 — Moosa MK.
Nouvelle Caledonie, A3 — Moosa MK.
Nouvelle Caledonie, B8 — Moosa MK.
Nouvelle Caledonie, B9 — Moosa MK.

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, Martinique), IOV (Margarita, Tortuga). 10-75 m. IWP - Invasive in ATL-MED
Charybdis hellerii - Morán & Atencio, 2006: 206, Margarita [From Hernández & Bolaños, 1995; not seen]. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Bolaños et al., 2012: 470, Margarita. - Questel, 2017: 1, St Barthélemy. - Questel, 2019: 22, St Barthélemy.
Charybdis hellerii - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 20/04/2012, UF32327, photo dSTM_3829 - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson & C. Carmona-Suárez, Besse 2013, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-5230, st. GD19, 8 m; 2 spp. MNHN-IU-2013-6824, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-6823, st. GM01, 1 m; 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-4917, st. GM37, 2 m. Also, as Charybdis sp. (?hellerii), MNHN-IU-2013-6829, st. GM11, 1 m; 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-6827, st. GM37, 2 m - Martinique, groupe BIOSPHERES, November 2015, coll. R. Ferry and photo in situ Y. Buske.
Comment: This swimming crab is native from the Indo-West Pacific and invasive to the WA-MED. Tavares & Braga de Mendonça (1996, fig. 1) have mapped chronologically the places of its captures in the WA.

Charybdis hellerii — Parasram et al., 2023 (Zootaxa): 35, Barbados

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Charybdis hellerii – Tavares & Amouroux, 2003: 626, French Guiana [Cayenne, Rémiré Beach, J.-M. Amouroux and M. Tavares coll., 10.xii.2001: 1 young male, 17 x 25 mm (MZUSP 10271)]. — UICN, 2019: 56, Tab. 7, French Guiana [Invasive species; from Tavares & Amourous, 2003]. — GBIF 2022, French Guiana [From UICN, 2019]. — Cintra et al. 2023: 3, Brazil Amapá [by-catch of brown shrimp fisheries, off Amapá, 30–50 m].
Distribution/Habitat – IWP, invasive in ATL-MED; Marine; 1–75 m.

Other data
Musorstom 1 Philippines, CP1 — Moosa MK, Musorstom 1, 1: 142-150

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