Decapoda - Brachyura - Mithracidae - Maguimithrax

Maguimithrax spinosissimus (Lamarck, 1818)

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World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009, Checklist Gulf Mexico) - Western Atlantic. North Carolida, south, Florida, Cuba, Carribea Sea (Venezuela). 1-179 m.

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

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-179 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Isla de Aves, Martinique, Barbados), IOV (Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao). 1-179 m. WA.
Mithrax spinosissimus - H. Milne Edwards, 1832: 12, pl. 2-3, Martinique [connu sous le nom de Cabouca]. - H. Milne Edwards, 1834-1840: 321, Habite les Antilles. - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 4, pl. 8, fig. 24, Guadeloupe [il se prend souvent dans les nasses que les pêcheurs mouillent à d'assez grandes profondeurs]. - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 100, Guadeloupe [ … cette espèce atteint parfois une taille considérable]. - Pocock, 1889: 6, Dominica. - Aurivillius, 1899: 57 St Barthélemy (St Barts) [ = ?'Barthélemy', from Wagner, 1990]. - Rathbun, 1920a: 28, St Martin [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1921: 82, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Wagner, 1990: 14, fig. 13-16, St Thomas, St Martin/Maarten, Guadeloupe, Curaçao, Bonaire. - Garcia et al., 1998: tab. 1, Isla de Aves. - Marcano & Bolaños, 2001: 77, Los Roques. - Lira et al., 2013: Tab. 1, Los Roques, Isla de Aves. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen]. - Questel, 2014: 13, St Barthélemy. - Stepp, 2014: 31, Curaçao [Fossil remains]. - Faasse, 2016: 52, St Eustatius [Plus additional record of a Mithrax sp.].
Mithrax (Mithrax) spinosissimus - Rathbun, 1925: 383, pl. 135, St Thomas, St Martin, Guadeloupe, Martinique [from H. Milne Edwards, 1832 & Doflein, 1899, the last as M. hispidus, not Herbst , Barbados from Hughes, 1750]. - Collins & Morris, 1976: 118, Barbados [Fossil remains]. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique.
Mithrax hispidus - Doflein, 1899: 179, Martinique - Not Damithrax hispidus (Herbst, 1790) but Damithrax spinosissimus (Lamarck, 1818) in Rathbun (1925).
Maguimithrax spinosissimus - Carmona-Suárez & Poupin, 2016: 370, Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, 1 female MNHN-IU-2013-6628 (lot JL308-1), 1 female MNHN-IU-2013-6630 (lot JL308-2), st. GR08, 22 m; 1 female MNHN-IU-2013-6626 (lot JL742), st. GR23, 20 m; 1 male MNHN-IU-2013-6627 (lot JL1244), st. GR41, 28 m. - Luque et al., 2017: 55, 59 Barbados, Curaçao [Fossil remains]. - Questel, 2019: 17, St Barthélemy.
Maguimithrax spinosissimus - Martinique, photo in situ Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin.
Comment: This species is reported by Desbonne (1867) and A. Milne Edwards (1873-80) as sometimes of very big size and common around Guadeloupe and Martinique where it is caught by traps, in deep waters. It has been transferred from Damithrax to Maguimithrax by Klompmaker et al. (2015).

Comment(s) on data
Damithrax spinosissimus - Windsor & Felder, 2014: 160, new genus and Mithracinae elevated to Mithracidae.
This species transferred from Damithrax to Maguimithrax in Klompmaker et al. (2015).

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