Decapoda - Brachyura - Sesarmidae - Aratus

Aratus pisonii (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)

14 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Felder et al. (1990) - ?Eastern Pacific, Western Atlantic - East Florida, Gulf Mexico, Antilles, Brazil. Includes Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe). - Chace & Hobbs (1969: 173) - Florida to Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil (New Providence I., Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Croix, Antigua I., Guadeloupe, Isla de Margarita, Islas Los Roques, Curacao); but record from 'eastern Pacific from Nicaragua to Peru' must now be attributed to a distinct species Aratus pacificus Thiercelin & Schubart, 2014 (Zootaxa).

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

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

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Croix), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Tortuga, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao). Terrestrial - Intertidal (mangrove). WA.
Sesarma pisonii H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (1834-1840): 76, Habite les Antilles [include Martinique, see Thiercelin & Schubart, 2014]. - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 47, Guadeloupe [n°146-148].
Aratus pisonii - Rathbun, 1918: 323, Curaçao. - Rathbun, 1920a: 24, Curaçao [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1921: 78, Antigua [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1924: 18, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Rathbun, 1936: 387, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Chace, 1956: 158, Los Roques. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 173, St Croix, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Margarita, Los Roques, Curaçao. - Hagen, 1977: 34, Trinidad. - Rodríguez, 1980: 396, Margarita, Curaçao. - Hernández et al., 1999: tab. 2, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique. - Yokoyama, 2010: 102, St Martin. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annex 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen]. - Thiercelin & Schubart, 2014: 548, Martinique [Type locality, lectotype selected by Ng et al. (in prep.) from dry type serie MNHN B3341]. - Questel, 2019: 27, St Barthélemy.
Aratus pisoni - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. J. Poupin; 1 male, 2 females, JL181, MNHN-IU-2013-4424, 1 male 23.2 x 23.3 mm (photo, front), JL181b, MNHN-IU-2013-4427, st. GM05 (mangrove); 2 males, 1 juvenile, JL809, MNHN-IU-2013-4425, st. GM15 (mangrove) - Martinique, groupe BIOSPHERES, November 2015, coll. R. Ferry & Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin.
Comment: Former EP records of this species (Nicaragua to Peru) are now accepted as Aratus pacificus Thiercelin & Schubart, 2014.
Guinot et al., 2013: 294 - Aratus pisonii (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), male 20.6 x 19.6 mm, female 20.6 x 19.9 mm, syntypes (dry), Martinique (MNHN-B3341); males 20.4 x 21.7, 21.1 x 21.8 mm, Martinique, M. Plée (dry) (MNHN-B3344)

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Aratus pisoni – Young, 1900: 294, Guyana.
Aratus pisonii – Holthuis, 1959a: 241, Suriname. — Tricart & Foubert, 2000, tab. 1, French Guiana [List]. — Amouroux & Tavares, 2005: 74, tab. 1, French Guiana. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Iles du Salut Expedition, 2014; 2 lots in MNHN, e.g. MNHN-IU-2014-8310, st. SM04, Kourou, Pariacabo, 1/10/2014, littoral, at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2014-8310]. — Buranelli & Mantelatto, 2019: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Shoreline (mangrove).

Comment(s) on data
Mail P. Ng 5/10/2016 - Type material of Aratus pisoni from Martinique, in Thiercelin & Schubart (2014) still not published.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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