Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Parapetrolisthes
Parapetrolisthes tortugensis (Glassell, 1945) |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic (0-54) - Fla Keys, GMx, Bah, Antil–Ven. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014: 12, tab. 2, Zoosystema, Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, ICA (Guadeloupe), IOV (Tortuga).
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 8-54 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St John, Jost Van Dyke, Tortola), ICA (Guadeloupe), IOV (Tortuga). 8-54 m. WA.
Parapetrolisthes tortugensis - Haig, 1956 : 22, Tortuga [coll. R/V Velero III, 1939]. - Haig, 1962: 172, St Thomas, St John, Jost Van Dyke, Tortola [new genus, Parapetrolisthes; coll. Th. Mortensen, 1906]. - Lira et al., 2012, tab. 1, Tortuga. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014: 12, tab. 2, Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Tortuga [Guadeloupe from Karubenthos 2012, 1 M 4.6x4.3 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-5590, st. GB21, 8 m, lot JL1097].
Petrolisthes tortugensis - Rodríguez, 1980: 217, Tortuga [from literature]. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga.
Comment(s) on data
Spoon-shaped dactyls of chela, see Werding (1982: 443, fig. 2). Werding (1982) indicates that Parapetrolisthes tortugensis was not collected on the Islas del Rosario in less than 9 m of water and that it seems to prefer greater depths.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database