Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Porcellana
| Porcellana sayana (Leach, 1820) |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic (1-110 m). NCar–Fla, GMx, Carib–Brazil. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014: 22, tab. 2, Zoosystema, Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, ICA (Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados), IOV (Coche, Margarita, Cubagua, La Blanquilla, La Tortuga, Los Roques).
(Ferreira, 2019, Arquivos de Ciências do Mar) - Western Atlantic: United States, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, western and eastern Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas; Mexico, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo; Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands; Antigua; Barbados; Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad; Belize, Twin Cays; Panama, Caledonia Bay; Colombia, Gulf of Morrosquillo, La Guajira, Cabo De La Vela and Providencia, Rosario and Santa Marta Islands; Venezuela, Blanquilla, Los Roques, Margarita, Cubagua and Coche Islands; Guyana; Suriname; French Guyana; Brazil (from Amapá to Rio Grande do Sul); and Uruguay
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-183 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea to Brazil. Lesser Antilles, VGI (St Thomas, St John, St Croix, Jost Van Dyke), ICA (St Eustatius, Antigua, St Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados), IOV (Coche, Margarita, Tortuga, Cubagua, Blanquilla, La Tortuga, Los Roques). 1-183 m. WA.
Porcellana ocellata Gibes - Stimpson, 1859: 77, St Thomas
Porcellana robertsoni Henderson, 1888: 111, North of Culebra, St Thomas [R/V Challenger, st. 24, dredge, 390 fathoms].
Porcellana sayana - Henderson, 1888: 109, St Thomas [R/V Challenger, 16-24 March 1873, shallow water]. - Schmitt, 1924a:90, Barbados, English Harbor = Antigua. - Schmitt, 1935: 189, St Thomas. - Chace, 1956: 152, Los Roques. - Haig, 1956 : 31, Coche, Cubagua [coll. R/V Velero III, 1939]. - Gore, 1974: 715, Martinique, Margarita, Borracha, Los Roques [R/V Pillsbury, st. P-913, 46-48 m, st. P-721, 26-27 m, st. P-727, 64 m, st. P-745, 64-66 m]. - Haig, 1962: 186, St Thomas, St John, St Croix, Jost Van Dyke (Tobago) [Coll. Th. Mortensen, 1906, 1916]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 219, Coche, Cubagua. - Scelzo & Varela, 1988: 37, Blanquilla. - Lira, 1997, tab. 4, Margarita. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Hernández et al, 1999: tab. 1, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Tagliafico et al., 2005: tab. 1, Margarita (Los Frailes). - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Lira et al., 2012, tab. 1, Tortuga. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014: 22, tab. 2, Virgin Islands, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, Coche, Margarita, Cubagua, La Blanquilla, La Tortuga, Los Roques [Guadeloupe from Karubenthos 2012, see below]. - Faasse, 2016: 52, St Eustatius [photo of a specimen, fig. 4]. - Questel, 2019: 6, St Barthélemy.
Porcellana sayana - Guadeloupe - Karubenthos 2012, st. GD33 (lot JL925), 16MAY2012, 16°24'N, 61°33'W, 130 m, 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-4986, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-4986, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-5063, MNHN-IU-2013-5064; st. GR27 (lot JL836), 15MAY2012, 16°22.57'N, 61°31.74'W, 8 m, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-7159; st. GR31 (lot JL955), 17MAY2012, 16°23.26'N, 61°31.79'W, 14 m, 1 sp. About 8.0x7.5 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-4985, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-5061. - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos II 2015, field det. J. Poupin, st. CP4529, 11 June 2015, 16°24.4'N, 61°33.68'W, 176-183 m [Previous maximum depth reported for this species was only 110 m], MNHN-IU-2013-18877. - Lira et al., 2017b: 27, Los Roques.
Comment: maximum depth range for this species extended herein from 110 m to 176-183. This species was already collected by dredge at 130 m around Guadeloupe, during Karubenthos I (Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014).
Update after 2018
Porcellana sayana. — Ferreira, 2019 (Arquivos de Ciências do Mar): 64, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad, Chacachacare Island, Rusts Bay, J. M. Stohley coll., 5 July 1970, 1 ovigerous female (USNM 141363).
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Porcellana sayana – Holthuis, 1959a: 161, Suriname [9-53 m]. — Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 10, Guyana, Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2249, 7°40' N, 57°34' W, 30 fathoms, 55 m; st. 2262, 7°18' N, 56°49’ W, 33 fathoms, 60 m; st. 2339, 7°12' N, 57°22’ W, 17 fathoms, 31 m]. — Coelho, 1971, table 1: Brazil Amapá, North of Pará. — Coelho & Ramos, 1972: 175, Brazil Amapá [0–41 m]. — Gore, 1974: 715, French Guiana. — Takeda, 1983: 97, Suriname, French Guiana [32 m]. — Veloso & Melo, 1993: 178, Brazil Amapá. — Melo, 1999: 266, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al., 2007: tab. 4, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 1–183 m.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database