Decapoda - Brachyura - Epialtidae - Pelia

Pelia mutica (Gibbes, 1850)

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World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009, Checklist Gulf Mexico) - Western Atlantic. United States (Massachusetts) Gulf Mexico, Cuba, South Antilles, 1-51 m.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with sponges

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-51 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (?St Martin, St Eustatius, Martinique, Guadeloupe), IOV (Cubagua). 1-51 m. WA.
Pelia mutica - Rathbun, 1925: 278, pl. 98, fig. 2-3, St Thomas. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Carmona-Suárez & Poupin, 2016: 361, St Martin, Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, 1 female MNHN-IU-2013-4612 (lot JL373a), st. GR11, 13 m; 1 ov. female MNHN-IU-2013-5663, st. GB36, 16 m. - Faasse, 2016: 52, St Eustatius.
Pelia mutica - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 13/04/2012, UF32010, photo dSTM_1754 (det. from photo, with hesitation because P. rotunda also possible). - Martinique, photo in situ Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin; groupe BIOSPHERES, Novembre 2015, coll. R. Ferry & Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin.
Comment: Differences between this species and Pelia rotunda A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 are not clear and the later is perhaps a synonym of P. mutica. See also Rathbun (1925) and under P. rotunda.

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