Decapoda - Brachyura - Sesarmidae - Armases

Armases ricordi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853)



World Distribution
Abele (1992) - Southern Florida north to Fort Pierce on the east coast and to St. Petersburg on the west coast; Bermuda; Bahamas; West Indies; coast of Central America and South America to Surinam. Records of this species from other localities were based on misidentified material (see Abele, 1972, 1973a).

Environnement : Marine & Land - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Intertidal - Min-Max observed: 0-1 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St John, St Croix), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Tobago, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Los Roques, Curaçao). Terrestrial - Intertidal (mangrove). WA.
Sesarma miniata Saussure, 1857: 306, St Thomas. - Saussure, 1858: 442, St Thomas - Accepted as Armases ricordi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) in WoRMS (2016).
Sesarma cinerea - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 46. - Doflein, 1899: 181 (Martinique) - Probably not Armases cinereum (Bosc, 1802), see comment.
Sesarma (Holometopus) ricordi - Rathbun, 1918: 308, Curaçao, St Thomas, St Croix, Martinique, Trinidad. - Rathbun, 1933: 91, St Thomas, St Croix (Buck I.). - Chace & Holthuis, 1948: 25, Los Roques [Coll. P.Hummelinck]. - Chace, 1956: 158, Los Roques. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 183, St Thomas, St Croix, Martinique, Trinidad, Curaçao. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen].
Sesarma ricordi - Hagen, 1977: 37, Trinidad. - Rodríguez, 1980: 393 (Martinique, Trinidad, Curaçao, in distribution).
Armases ricordi - Abele, 1992: 32, St Thomas, St John, St Croix, Tobago, Trinidad. - Hernández & Bolaños, 1995: 77, Margarita. - Hernández et al, 1999: tab. 2, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: appendix, Cubagua [From literature]. - Questel, 2019: 27, St Barthélemy.
Armases ricordi - Armases ricordi - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 16/04/2012, UF32159 , photo dSTM_2687, UF32158, photo dSTM_2690; 25/04/2012, UF32585 , photo dSTM_7715, UF32584, photo dSTM_7723 - Guadeloupe - Karubenthos 2012, det. J. Poupin [with Abele (1992), Chace & Hobbs (1969), pleopod checked]; 1 female ov., 1 male 15.1 x 16.6 mm, JL1531, MNHN-IU-2013-6669, st. GM01 (intertidal); 1 male, JL19 (photo), MNHN-IU-2013-4430, 1 male 9.0 x 9. mm, JL20 (photo), MNHN-IU-2013-4431, st. GM02 (intertidal); 1 male 11.7 x 12.7 mm, JL108 (photo), MNHN-IU-2013-4373, 1 male 13.4 x 14.1 mm, JL10, photo, 4 spp., JL109, MNHN-IU-2013-4374, 1 sp., JL109 (photo), MNHN-IU-2013-4375, st. GM03 (intertidal); 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-4159, st. GM05 (intertidal); 3 spp., JL238, MNHN-IU-2013-4429, 1 sp., JL239 (photo), MNHN-IU-2013-6670, st. GM06 (intertidal); 1 female ov., 1 juv., JL473, MNHN-IU-2013-4428, 1 sp., JL473b, MNHN-IU-2013-4798, st. GM09 (intertidal).
Comment: Presence of Armases cinereum in West Indies is doubtful as Abele (1992: 32) indicates that: 'Records of this species (A. cinereum) from the West Indies and elsewhere were based on misidentified material'. Armases cinereum is affiliated to A. ricordi (Abele, 1973: 378), common around Guadeloupe, therefore Desbonne's record of Sesarma cinerea is probably of A. ricordi instead.

Armases ricordi - Parasram et al. (2021, Zootaxa: 471, fig. 12) - Barbados

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Sesarma (Holometopus) ricordi H. Milne Edwards, 1853 – Holthuis, 1959a: 246, Suriname.
Distribution/Habitat – WA (Suriname as southern limit); Terrestrial and shoreline.

Comment(s) on data
Abele (1992) - Armases ricordi is one of the more terrestrial species in this group. It occurs among supratidal litter to several hundred meters inland. Specimens were collected from dry areas above mangrove swamps, in pinewoods on islands in Dade County, Florida, in grass above sandy beaches and among limestone rubble at the edge of a reef flat. Verrill (1908a,b) records a "variety" of this species from dry upland fields in Bermuda but doesn't say how far these were from water.

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