Decapoda - Brachyura - Carpiliidae - Carpilius

Carpilius corallinus (Herbst, 1783)

10 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009, Checklist Gulf Mexico) - Bermuda, Florida Key, Western Gulf Mexico, Antilles, Brazil. 2-46 m.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 2-46 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, Tortola), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, Isla de Aves, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad), IOV (Blanquilla, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao). 2-46 m. WA.
Carpilius corallinus - H. Milne Edwards, 1834-1840: 381, Habite les Antilles. - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 26, Guadeloupe [Habite la Guadeloupe, où il sert comme aliment et y est connus sous le nom de crabe honteux). - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 239, Guadeloupe [on la porte sur le marché]. - Pocock, 1889: 6, Dominica. - Rathbun, 1920a: 18, St Martin, Bonaire, Curaçao [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1924: 14, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Holthuis, 1959: 76, St Martin [Museum Philadelphia, coll. Van Rijgersma]. - Rathbun, 1930: 240, pl. 97-99, St Thomas, St Martin, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Bonaire, Curaçao. - Rathbun, 1933: 53, St Thomas. - Rathbun, 1936: 383, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Collins & Morris, 1976: 126, Barbados [Fossil remains]. - Scelzo & Varela, 1988: 36, Blanquilla. - Garcia et al., 1998: tab. 1, Isla de Aves. - Wetzer et al., 2003: tab. 1, Tortola (Guana Island). - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen]. - Questel, 2014: 11, St Barthélemy. - Hailey, 2017: 7, Tobago, Trinidad. - Luque et al., 2017: 55, Barbados [Fossil remains]. - Questel, 2019: 14, St Barthélemy.
Carpilius corallinus - Martinique, photos in situ 2012/2015 Y. Buske.
Carpilius corallinus - St Croix, NMNH Invertebrate collections 2017, USNM 265091, 265092, coll. M. L. Reaka, 1983 - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, Besse 2013, det. J. Poupin, 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-6812, st. GM06, 1 m, JL341, photo; 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-6880, st. GM14, 1 m, JL717, photo; 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-6813, st. GM34, 1 m, JL1478, photo; also Pointe à Pitre market, photo A. Waren.

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