Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Achelous
| Achelous spinicarpus (Stimpson, 1871) |
World Distribution
Poupin (1994, Etudes & Thčses) - Western Atlantic. Common from North Carolina (Cap Hatteras), Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe, Martinique, 220-250 m), Brazil (Santa Catarina). 6-600 m.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 9-600 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: WA. North Carolina, Gulf of Mexico, northern South America, Brazil. Lesser Antilles, VGI (St Croix), ICA (Saba, St Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Los Roques, Aruba). 9-600 m.
Neptunus (Hellenus) spinicarpus (Stimpson) - A. Milne-Edwards, 1880a: 11, St Croix, Saba, St Kitts, Grenada, Barbados [R/V Blake, 21-208 brasses]. - A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1923: 312, St Croix, Saba, St Kitts, Grenada, Barbados [R/V Blake, st. 132, Santa Cruz, 115 brasses; st. 144, Saba Bank, 21 brasses; St. 148, St Kitts, 208 brasses; st. 253, Grenade, 92 brasses; st. 290, Barbades, 73 brasses; st. 292, Barbades, 50 brasses; st. 293, Barbades, 82 brasses]. - Faxon, 1896: 154, St Kitts [R/V Blake, st. 149, 60-150 fathoms].
Portunus (Achelous) spinicarpus - Rathbun, 1930: 92, pl. 45, near Trinidad.
Portunus spinicarpus - Holthuis, 1969: 415, Trinidad, Los Testigos, Margarita, Tortuga, Los Roques, Aruba [R/V Pillsbury, 1968, cruise along Venezuela, numerous stations in Table 2, P-699 to P-761]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 304, Aruba [South of Aruba, from Taissoun, 1973]. - Paulmier, 1993: 27, Guadeloupe, Martinique [R/V Polka, trap, 220-250 m]. - Paulmier & Gervain, 1994: 10, tab. 2, Martinique [R/V Polka, deep trap]. - Poupin, 1994: 46 - Guadeloupe [R/V Polka, 200-405 m, det. M. Tavares, MNHN; see comment]. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: 45, Cubagua [From literature]. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen].
Achelous spinicarpus - Poupin & Corbari, 2016: in press, Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson & C. Carmona-Suarez, workshop Besse 2013) st. GN14, 6 May 2012, 16°23'N, 61°37'W, 150 m, MNHN-IU-2013-5377; st. GN13 (JL366), 6 May 2012, 16°23'N, 61°37'W, 138 m, MNHN-IU-2013-5354 - Karubenthos II 2015, st. DW4588 or CP4588, 21 June 2015, 16°1.85'N, 61°24'W, 416-251 m, MNHN-IU-2013-18989.
Comment: this species was collected during Karubenthos 2012 and 2015. It is affiliated to A. binoculus (see under that species). The specimen attributed by Poupin (1994: 44) to A. spinicarpus is probably A. binoculus instead because it has the two red spots on the carapace (unpublished photo, J. Poupin).
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapŕ)
Portunus spinicarpus – Holthuis, 1959a: 199, Suriname [27–55 m]. – Coelho, 1971, table 1: Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos, 1972: 187, Brazil Amapá. — Takeda, 1983: 148, Suriname, French Guiana [52–250 m]. — Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá [Guianas]. — Melo, 1996: 328, Brazil Amapá. — Melo, 1998: 478, Brazil Amapá. — Silva et al., 1998: 94, Brazil Amapá [34 m]. — Le Loeuff & Cosel, 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Guéguen, 2000: 692, tab. 1, French Guiana [Continental shelf, 200–420 m]. — Cintra et al., 2003: 71, Brazil Amapá [R/V Almirante Paulo Moreira, 04°27’N, 030°00’W, 14/03/98, 109 m; 02°08’N, 048°34’W, 01/05/98, 51 m]. — Braga et al., 2005: 30, Brazil Amapá [In distribution]. — Silva et al., 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.
Portunus (Achelous) spinicarpus – Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 11, Guyana, Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2249, 7°40' N, 57°34' W, 30 fathoms, 55 m; st. 2262, 7°18' N, 56°49’ W, 33 fathoms, 60 m; st. 2335, 6°50' N, 55°34’ W, 28 fathoms, 51 m]. — Coelho et al., 2008: 30, Brazil Amapá [From Coelho (1969)]. — Cintra et al., 2017: tab. 1–6, Brazil Amapá [bycatch of shrimp fisheries, 0-4°N, 27–47 m].
Achelous spinicarpus – Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Guyane 2014 Expedition, 63 lots in MNHN, e.g. MNHN-IU-2013-2435, st. CP4350, 28/07/2014, 64–65 m, at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2013-2435].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 9–600 m.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database