Decapoda - Brachyura - Gecarcinidae - Cardisoma
| Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille, in Latreille, Le Peletier, Serville & Guérin, 1828 |
World Distribution
Chace & Hobbs (1969, Smithsonian Institution) - Western Atlantic. Bermudas, southern Florida, and Texas to Estado do Sao Paulo, Brazil (Bermudas, Andros I., Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles (Saint Thomas, Saint John, Saint Croix, Montserrat, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, Mas Los Roques, Curacao, Isla de Providencia, Isla de Utila). Also Guadeloupe
(Sasaki, 2019) - WA, Texas USA to Sao Paulo Brazil), Guyana, ?Suriname, Brazil (Amapà).
Environnement : Land - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-0 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St John, St Croix), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Blanquilla, Tortuga, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). Terrestrial. WA.
Ocypode gigantea Fréminville, 1835: 221, Virgin Islands, Martinique [p. 222, je ne l'ai jamais rencontré ailleurs qu'aux Antilles, et surtout dans celles des îles qui gisent entre la Martinique et les îles Vierges] - Accepted as Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille in Latreille, Le Peletier, Serville & Guérin, 1828 in WoRMS (2016).
Cardisoma diurnum Gill, 1862 (1858-1862): 42, type localities, Barbados, Grenada, St Thomas [coll. A.H. Riise] - Accepted as Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille in Latreille, Le Peletier, Serville & Guérin, 1828 in WoRMS (2016).
Cardisoma guanhumi - H. Milne Edwards, 1834-1840: 24, Habite les Antilles. - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 41, Guadeloupe [n°127 mâle, n°128 femelle, préparés en 1866; 'désigné à la Guadeloupe sous les noms vulgaires de Crabe, Crabe de terre, ou Crabe blanc, il est très recherché comme aliment et est l'objet d'un commerce local relativement étendu dans la saison des pluies'; 'manquant' in MNHN dry box]. - Doflein, 1899: 189, Martinique. - Rathbun, 1918: 345, Curaçao [R/V Albatross, 1884]. - Rathbun, 1920a: 26, Curaçao [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1921: 78, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1924: 18, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Rathbun, 1933: 94, St Thomas. - Rathbun, 1936: 387, Aruba [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Chace & Holthuis, 1948: 26, Blanquilla, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba [Coll. P.Hummelinck]. - Chace, 1956: 158, Los Roques. - Bullis & Thompson, 1965 : 12, Trinidad. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 195, St Thomas, St John, St Croix, Montserrat, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, Los Roques, Curaçao. - Hagen, 1977: 42, Trinidad. - Scelzo & Varela, 1988: 36, Blanquilla. - Hernández et al., 1999: tab. 2, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Yokoyama, 2010: 103, St Martin. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: appendix, Cubagua [From literature]. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annex 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen]. - Questel, 2014: 11, St Barthélemy. - Luque, 2017: 154, fig. 3, Guadeloupe. - Questel, 2019: 24, St Barthélemy.
Cardisoma guanhumi - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 2012, field notes without UF or photo - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, littoral and mangrove, det. J. Poupin, Besse March 2013; 2 specimens, MNHN-IU-2013-4462, 2 specimens, JL472, MNHN-IU-2013-4461, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-5901, st. GM09 (1 m); 1 female 60 x 74 mm (photo) JL804, MNHN-IU-2013-4463, st. GM15 (1 m) - Martinique, specimen(s) caught with local traps, photo Y. Buske, 2015; Novembre 2015, groupe BIOSPHERES, photos in mangrove Caravelle, J. Poupin..
Cardisoma guanhumi - Parasram et al. (2021, Zootaxa: 464, fig. 7) - Barbados
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Cardisoma guanhumi – Young, 1900: 247, Guyana. — Holthuis, 1959a: 259, Suriname [a single specimen taken in a highly unusual place (shrimp trap) ... more information on whether and where the species actually occurs in Suriname would be highly welcome]. — Lima et al., 2009, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Terrestrial (mangrove).
Remark – The WA distribution of this mangrove crab seems to be interrupted in the FGR. It is still not reported in French Guiaana and its presence in Guyana and Suriname needs to be confirmed (Holthuis, 1959; Lima et al., 2009, fig. 1). Lima et al. (2009) have nevertheless documented interesting records in the states of Amapá and Pará, thus reducing the geographic lacuna in the region.
Comment(s) on data
This species eaten by local at Guadeloupe, but Chace & Hobbs (1969: 45) have this comment for Dominica "Both G. lateralis and G. ruricola seem definitely to be preferred to Cardisoma guanhami and apparently are more widely available than the latter".
The presence of this species in Suriname is dubious according to Holthuis (1959: 259): "More information on whether and where the species actually occurs in Suriname would be highly welcomed" and it has still not be reported in French Guiana. Its presence in North Brazil (Amapà and Pará) is however confirmed by Lima et al. (2009) and it is common in Northeast and Southeast Brazil.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database