Decapoda - Anomura - Paguridae - Phimochirus

Phimochirus holthuisi (Provenzano, 1961)



World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic - North Carolina, South Florida, Gulf Mexico, Bahamas, Carribean to Brazil. 1-210 m
Felder et al. (2019) - Western Atlantic: East coast of the United States, off North Carolina and Georgia; Caribbean, including Quintana Roo (Cozumel), Belize, Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, and Colombia; questionably northeastern coast of South America, Suriname to Brazil, 2-18 m to 91 and ?218 m.

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

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 2-218 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St John), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, Martinique), IOV (Tortuga). 1-210 m. WA.
Pylopagurus holthuisi Provenzano, 1961: 162, St John [coll. US national park, 1958-1961].
Phimochirus holthuisi - McLaughlin, 1981b: 342, tab. 5, off Venezuelan coast, west of Tortuga [10°44'N, 66°07'W, R/V Pillsbury, st. 737, 60-73 m, 7/22/68]- Abele & Kim, 1986: 34, Virgin Islands. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique. - Questel, 2019: 11, St Barthélemy.
Phimochirus holthuisi - Guadeloupe - Karubenthos 2012 (6-40 m), det. R. Lemaitre, Besse 2013; st. GB09, 6 m, JL562, MNHN-IU-2013-4492, 1 sp. - JL568, MNHN-IU-2013-6652, photo, 1 sp. ; st. GD09, 40 m, MNHN-IU-2013-5241, 1 sp. ; st. GS05, 22 m, JL336, MNHN-IU-2013-5034, 1 sp. ; st. GS06, 23 m, JL372, MNHN-IU-2013-4864, 1 sp. ; st. GS26, 16 m, JL1132, MNHN-IU-2013-5438, 1 sp. ; st. GS29, 29 m, JL1291, MNHN-IU-2013-4838, 1 sp.
Phimochirus holthuisi - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 19/04/2012, UF32282, photo dSTM_6245; 20/04/2012, UF32303, photo dSTM_3696, UF32303, photo dSTM_6541.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Pylopagurus operculatus – Holthuis, 1959a: 157, Suriname [48-49 m]. Not Pylopagurus operculatus (Stimpson, 1859) but Pylopagurus holthuisi sp. nov. in Provenzano (1961: 162).
Pylopagurus holthuisi Provenzano, 1961: 162, Suriname [Same specimens than in Holthuis (1959); coll. R/V Coquette, May and June 1957, 48–49 m, NHML].
Phimochirus holthuisi. – McLaughlin, 1981b: tab. 5, Suriname, French Guiana [R/V Pillsbury, st. 684, 14/07/1968, 7°19'N, 56°51'W, 55–58 m, st. 650, 8/07/1968, 6°07'N, 52°19'W, 84–91 m]. — Riger, 1998: 415, Brazil Amapá. — Melo, 1999: 140, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 2–91 m to ?218 m.
Remark – Felder et al. (2019) must be consulted as they consider that the Holthuis' Suriname record is probably not Pylopagurus holthuisi s.s. but instead P. formani nov. sp. According to them all Brazilian records of P. holthuisi must be also "reevaluated to determine the extent to which they indeed may represent P. holthuisi s.s."

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