Decapoda - Brachyura - Mithracidae - Mithraculus

Mithraculus sculptus (Lamarck, 1818)

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World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009, Checklist) - Western Atlantic 1-55 m. South Florida, Bahamas, Antilles, Carribean, Columbia, Brazil.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-55 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix), ICA (Anguilla, St Martin, St Barthélemy, St Eustatius, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Isla de Aves, Martinique, Barbados, Tobago), IOV (Margarita, Blanquilla, Tortuga, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). 1-55 m. WA.
Mithrax sculptus - H. Milne Edwards, 1832: 14, pl. 5, Martinique. - H. Milne Edwards, 1834-1840: 322, Habite les Antilles. - Nobili, 1898: 1, St Thomas [coll. Duchassaing]. - Doflein, 1899: 179, Martinique. - Rathbun, 1920a: 29, Curaçao, Aruba [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1924: 20, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 288, Tortuga, Los Roques, Curaçao, Aruba [in part from Rathbun, 1925]. - Grajal & Laughlin, 1984: 227, Los Roques. - Scelzo & Varela, 1988: 37, Blanquilla. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga [Also from literature].
Mithrax minutus - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 10, Guadeloupe [Habite la Guadeloupe, comme le M. sculptus]. - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 105, pl. 20, fig. 2, St Thomas, Guadeloupe, Martinique [Commune à la Guadeloupe … le Muséum en possède aussi des exemplaires provenant de Saint Thomas et de la Martinique] - Accepted as Mithraculus sculptus (Lamarck, 1818) in WoRMS (2016).
Mithrax coronatus - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 106, pl. 20, fig. 1 (… confondue avec le Mithrax scultptus par Lamarck, White et d'autres auteurs … en diffère beaucoup par sa carapace plus large, plus ornée, le front plus étroit … Guadeloupe, St Thomas …). - Nobili, 1898: 1, St Thomas [coll. Duchassaing]. - Mithraculus coronatus White, 1847 accepted as Mithraculus sculptus (Lamarck, 1818) in WoRMS (2016).
Mithrax (Mithraculus) sculptus - Rathbun, 1921: 84, Antigua, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1925: 422, pl. 152, St Thomas, Antigua, Barbados, Curaçao. - Rathbun, 1936: 381, Klein Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Chace, 1956: 161, Los Roques.
Mithraculus sculptus - Wagner, 1990: 43, fig. 44-47, St Thomas, St Croix, Anguilla, St Martin/Maarten, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Isla de Aves, Martinique, Tobago, Bonaire, Aruba. - Garcia et al., 1998: 27, Isla de Aves [From literature]. - Marcano & Bolaños, 2001: 77, Margarita. - Lira et al., 2013: tab. 1, Margarita, Los Roques, Tortuga, Blanquilla. - Questel, 2014: 12, St Barthélemy. - Carmona-Suárez & Poupin, 2016: 372, St Martin, Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, 2 males MNHN-IU-2013-4761 (lot JL1072-1), st. GB21, 8 m; 1 male MNHN-IU-2013-4537 (lot JL1364-4), st. GB29, 2 m; 2 males MNHN-IU-2013-6617 (lot JL560-2), st. GM10, 1 m; 1 male MNHN-IU-2013-6619 (lot JL702), st. GM11, 1 m; 2 males, 2 females MNHN-IU-2013-6608 (lot JL947-2), st. GM21, 2 m; 1 male, 1 female MNHN-IU-2013-4560 (lot JL1252), st. GM28, 2 m; 2 males, 1 female ov. MNHN-IU-2013-5936 (lot JL55-1), st. GR01, 3 m; 3 males, 2 females MNHN-IU-2013-4533 (lot JL1400-3), st. GR50, 4 m. - Questel, 2019: 17, St Barthélemy.
Mithraculus sculptus - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 9/04/2012, UF31862, photo dSTM_0408; 17/04/2012, UF32224 - Photo dSTM_5872; 20/04/2012, UF32359, photo dSTM_6607.
Not Mithraculus sculptus (Lamarck, 1818) in Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 9, Guadeloupe - Corrected into M. coryphe in Rathbun (1925: 426).

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