Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Pachycheles
| Pachycheles ackleianus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 |
World Distribution
Rodriguez et al. (2005: 554) - Tampa Bay and Florida Keys, Florida, U.S.A.; Veracruz, Yucatán,
and Quintana Roo, Mexico; Mulatas Archipelago and Canal Zone, Panama; Cabo de La Vela and Santa Marta, Colombia; Los Roques, Margarita, and Los Testigos Islands, Venezuela; Cuba; Jamaica; Dominican Republic; St. Thomas; Antigua; Martinique; St. Lucia; Barbados; Guyanas; Pernambuco to Bahia, Brazil. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014, tab. 2, Zoosystema, Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, ICA (Antigua, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados), IOV (Los Testigos, Margarita, Los Roques).
(Ferreira, 2019, Arquivos de Ciências do Mar) - Western Atlantic: Florida, USA; north of Gulf of Mexico; Mulatas Archipelago and Canal Zone; Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica; Dominican Republic; St. Thomas; Antigua; Martinique; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and The Grenadines; Barbados; Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago; Panama; Colombia, Cabo de La Vela and Santa Marta; Venezuela, Los Roques, Margarita and Los Testigos Islands; Guyanas, and Brazil, from Pará to Rio de Janeiro.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with sponges
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-82 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St John, Tortola), ICA (Antigua, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados), IOV (Los Testigos, Margarita, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao). 0-66 m. WA.
Pachycheles ackleianus - A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1923: 295, St. Thomas [R/V Blake]. - Schmitt, 1924a:90, Barbados. - Schmitt, 1935: 184, St Thomas, Barbados. - Haig, 1962: 182, St John, Tortola [Coll. Th. Mortensen, 1906]. - Gore, 1974: 705, Antigua, Martinique, St Lucia, Los Testigos, Los Roques [R/V Pillsbury, st. P-967, 22 m, st. P-910, 51-82 m, P-895, St Lucia, 18 m, st. P-709, 46 m, st. P-745, 64-66 m]. - Westinga & Hoetjes, 1981: 142, tab. 2, Bonaire, Curaçao [Associated with sponges]. - Lira, 1997: tab. 4, Margarita. - Rodríguez et al. 2005: 554, St Thomas, Antigua, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados, Testigos, Margarita, Los Roques. - Lira et al., 2007: 45, Margarita. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014, tab. 2, Virgin Islands, Antigua, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados, Los Testigos, Margarita, Los Roques.
Update after 2018
Pachycheles ackleianus. — Ferreira, 2019 (Arquivos de Ciências do Mar): 62, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Baradel, Tobago Keys, west side, Nicholson coll., 17 April 1956, 3 males, 2 ovigerous females (USNM 275708); Mustique, reef along shore near anchorage, E. Haingot coll., 19 April 1956, 3 males, 1 female (USNM 275709). Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago, Goat Island, R. Heard coll., 14 June 1993, 1 male, 1 ovigerous female (USNM 268873); Pigeon Point, East of, T. E Bowman coll., 10 April 1959, 1 female (USNM 275706).
Comment(s) on data
Ferreira, 2019 (Arquivos de Ciências do Mar): 62 - The species can be found associated with sponges (Werding, 1977), down to depths of 82 m (Gore, 1974).
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database