Decapoda - Anomura - Diogenidae - Paguristes
| Paguristes spinipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009, Checklist) - Western Atlantic. North Carolina, Florida, Gulf Mexico, Antilles, Carribean Sea, Brazil. 7-640 m. Includes Lesser Antilles (?Guadeloupe).
Lemaitre & Tavares (2015, Zootaxa) -Western Atlantic: from off the North Carolina to Florida, Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Brazil (off Alagoas and Bahia). Depth: 70 to 640 m.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 70-640 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Caribbean Sea to Brazil. Lesser Antilles, ICA (Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent, Barbados, Grenada), IOV (Curaçao). 70-640 m. WA.
Paguristes spinipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1880a: 44, Grenada [R/V Blake, st. 253, 92 brasses]. - A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1893: 33, pl. 2, fig. 1-13, Martinique, St Vincent, Barbados, Grenada [R/V Blake, st. 253, 92 brasses, Grenada, st. 210, 191 brasses, Martinique, st. 231, 95 brasses, St Vincent, st. 273, 103 brasses, Barbados, st. 299, 140 brasses, Barbados, R/V Hassler, 100 brasses, Barbados, st. 273, 103 brasses, Barbados, st. 290, 73 brasses, Barbados]. - Lemaitre & Tavares, 2015: 472, St Lucia [R/V Oregon, st. 5956, 13°40’N, 60°54’W, 229 m, 10/03/1966], Curaçao [CURASUB, 2012, 145-290 m].
Paguristes spinipes - Online record CURASUB 2013, in USNM collection, with color photos showing red bands on meri of chelipeds and legs but with ocular peduncle entirely white (no red/white stripes as specimens from Guadeloupe, Karubenthos II 2015), at http://collections.si.edu/search/record/nmnhinvertebratezoology_10596019
Paguristes cf. spinipes - Guadeloupe - Coll. Lamy, 2003, traps 300 m, det McLaughlin, 2005 (MNHN).
Paguristes spinipes - Guadeloupe (first record), Karubenthos II 2015, field det. J. Poupin, st. CP4517, 9 June 2015, 16°24.4'N, 61°34'W, 178-185 m, MNHN-IU-2013-18817 (red coloration apparent on ocular peduncle, also illustrated in Lemaitre & Tavares, 2015); st. DW4555, 15 June 2015, 16°23.53'N, 60°49.67'W, 258-100 m, MNHN-IU-2013-18930; st. DW4586, 21 June 2015, 15°59.62'N, 61°22.51'W, 251-204 m, MNHN-IU-2013-19006; st. DW4592, 22 June 2015, 15°58.74'N, 61°21.82'W, 214-201 m, MNHN-IU-2013-19014; st. DW4615, 25 June 2015, 16°23.16'N, 60°49.66'W, 270-226 m, MNHN-IU-2013-19071; st. CP4624, 26 June 2015, 15°56.23'N, 61°30.67'W, 242-243 m, MNHN-IU-2013-19115; st. DW4647, 29 June 2015, 15°50.29'N, 61°26.24'W, 263-264 m, MNHN-IU-2013-19185.
Comment: this is a first record for Guadeloupe Island but the species is otherwise common in Lesser Antilles. A specimen from Guadeloupe was already attributed to P. cf. spinipes by P. McLaughlin (com. pers., workshop Paris, MNHN 2005, coll. Lamy, 2003, traps at 300 m, specimen probably unregistered in Paris MNHN). Paguristes spinipes can be distinguished easily by its color pattern recently illustrated from Curaçao by Lemaitre & Tavares (2015).
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database