Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Cronius

Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818)

8 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
(Hendrickx, 1995b: 134) - Atlantic. Eastern Pacific, from gulf of California to Perou and Oceanic Islands: Alijos, Clipperton, Galapagos. - Felder et al. (2009) - 1-110 m, NJer–Brazil, GMx, E Atl, E Pac.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-110 m

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
CLIPPERTON - Cronius ruber - Garth, 1965: 15 (Clipperton). - Richard et al., 1968: 6 (Clipperton). - Hendrickx, 1995b: 134 (distribution). - Poupin et al., 2007 (Clipperton new coll.).

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, St Eustatius, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia), IOV (Margarita, Bonaire). 1-110 m. WA-EP.
Achelous ruber - Doflein, 1899: 181, Martinique.
Cronius ruber - Stimpson, 1860: 225, St Thomas [coll. A.H. Riise]. - Rathbun, 1920a: 18, St Martin, St Eustatius [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1921: 68, Antigua [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1930: 139, pl. 62-63, St Thomas, St Martin, St Eustatius, Dominica. - Rathbun, 1933: 51, St Thomas. - Rathbun, 1936: 383, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 326, Bonaire [from Rathbun, 1936]. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique. - Tagliafico et al., 2005: tab. 1, Margarita (Los Frailes). - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen]. - Mantelatto et al., 2009: 572, St Lucia. - Questel, 2019: 22, St Barthélemy.
Cronius ruber - Martinique, groupe BIOSPHERES, November 2015, coll. R. Ferry & Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin.
Comment: Carlos Lira (mail April, 2015) kindly pointed us that at least photo of specimen MNHN-IU-2013-5133, posted on the internet in the database of Legall & Poupin (2016) as A. ordwayi is not that species but probably a Cronius sp. Instead

Cronius ruber — Parasram et al., 2023 (Zootaxa): 36, Barbados

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Cronius ruber – Durand, 1959: 32, French Guiana, photo 8 [R/V ORSOM II; det. Guinot-Dumortier]. — Holthuis, 1959a: 206, Suriname [27 m]. — Guinot-Dumortier, 1959: 514, French Guiana [Iles du Salut, 50 m]. — Coelho, 1969, table 1: Brazil Amapá [Cabo do Norte; North of Pará]. — Fausto Filho & Sampaio Neto, 1976: 69, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos, 1972: 188, Brazil Amapá. — Takeda, 1983: 153, Suriname, French Guiana [51 m]. – Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá [Guianas]. — Melo, 1996: 320, Brazil Amapá. — Melo, 1998: 476, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel, 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Braga et al., 2005: 30, Brazil Amapá [In distribution]. — Coelho et al., 2008: 29, Brazil Amapá [From Coelho (1969)]. — Alves et al., 2012b: 944, Brazil Amapá [In distribution, from Melo, 2010]. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Iles du Salut 2014 Expedition, 21 lots in MNHN (also with 'cf. ruber), e.g. MNHN-IU-2014-8190, st. SC02, 25/09/2014, 0–5 m, at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2014-8190]. — Cintra et al., 2017: tab. 1-6, Brazil Amapá [bycatch of shrimp fisheries, 0–4°N, 27–47 m]. — Tavares & Mendonça 2022: 53, Brazil Amapá [Distribution].
Distribution/Habitat – ATL-EP; Marine; 0–110 m.

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