Decapoda - Brachyura - Aethridae - Hepatus
| Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic. 2-160 m. Ga–E GMx, Carib–Brazil. French Guiana.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 2-160 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St John), ICA (Guadeloupe, Martinique), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua). 2-160 m. WA.
Hepatus fasciatus - H. Milne Edwards, 1837: 117, Habite les Antilles. - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 53, Guadeloupe [MNHN dry collection, n°163-164, B18807, Guadeloupe] - Hepatus fasciatus Latreille, 1803 accepted as Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) in WoRMS (2016).
Hepatus tuberculatus - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 53, Guadeloupe - Hepatus tuberculatus Saussure, 1858 accepted as Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) in WoRMS (2016).
Hepatus princeps (Herbst, 1794) - Rathbun, 1937: 235, part western Atlantic records only, St Thomas, St John, Guadeloupe, Martinique (type locality) - Hepatus princeps (Herbst, 1794) accepted as H. pudibundus (cf. Williams, 1984: 280).
Hepatus pudibundus - Rodríguez, 1980: 265, Margarita. - Taissoun, 1984-1985: 128, Margarita. - Hernández et al, 1999: tab. 1, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: appendix, Cubagua [From literature].
Hepatus pudibundus - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson, Besse 2013; 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-4441, st. GD46, 10 m, JL1206, photo; 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-4523, st. GD49, 3 m, JL1225; 2 spp., MNHN-IU-2013-4421, 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-6699, JL1154, photo, st. GN29, 5 m; 3 spp., MNHN-IU-2013-6703, st. GN31, 4 m, JL1214, photo; also listed in MNHN collection, August 2016, MNHN-IU-2013-4451, 6700, 6887, 6888, 6889, 6890, 6891.
Guinot et al., 2013: 286, Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785), male 45.0 × 63.0 mm, Martinique (MNHN-B24668)
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Hepatus tuberculatus de Saussure, 1858 – Young, 1900: 308, Guyana [Coast of Guiana]. Hepatus tuberculatus de Saussure, 1858 accepted as Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1758) in WoRMS (2023).
Hepatus princeps – Durand, 1959: 32, photo 9, French Guiana [R/V ORSOM II; det. Guinot-Dumortier]. — Guinot-Dumortier, 1959: 510, French Guiana [Iles du Salut, MNHN, coll. July 1957, 1958] — Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 11, Guyana, Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2272, 6°30' N, 17 fathoms, 31 m; st. 2239, 7°12' N, 31 m]. Hepatus princeps (Herbst, 1794) accepted as H. pudibundus in WoRMS (2023).
Hepatus pudibundus – Holthuis, 1959a: 167, Suriname [7–37 m]. — Takeda, 1983: 127, Suriname, French Guiana [32–50 m]. — Melo, 1996: 131, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel, 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Braga et al., 2005: 3, Brazil Amapá [In distribution]. — Coelho et al., 2008: 9, Brazil Amapá. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Expedition Iles du Salut 2014, 3 lots in MNHN, st. SD08, SD15, 5–6 m, MNHN-IU-2014-8301, 8322, 8329]. — Cintra et al., 2017: tab. 1-6, Brazil Amapá [bycatch of shrimp fisheries, 0-4°N, 27–47 m].
Hepatus ?pudibundus – French Guiana, coll. Mathieu Foulquié 2012, pre-det J. Poupin based on photograph only. Perhaps a juvenile of this species.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 2–160 m.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database