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Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Pachycheles

Pachycheles rugimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

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World Distribution
Rodriguez et al. (2005: 557) - Beaufort and Cape Lookout, North Carolina and west Florida, U.S.A.; Veracruz and Quintana Roo, Mexico; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Suriname; from Amapá to Pernambuco, Brazil.
In de Azevedo Ferreira & Tavares (2019, Zootaxa): "All previous records of P. rugimanus from Brazil are considered invalid. Presence in Suriname must be documented.

Remark – It is not clear why “Suriname” is indicated by Rodríguez et al. (2005) in the distribution of Pachycheles rugimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880. It possibly comes from ’Guyanas’, indicated in Werding et al. (2003, tab. 1). Until this record is better defined, it seems more prudent to remove Pachycheles rugimanus from Suriname, especially since it could be corrected into P. coelhoi, as for all others ancient records of P. rugimanus in nearby Brazil Amapá (see Azevedo Ferreira de & Tavares, 2019). The geographic distribution of P. rugimanus is limited to North Carolina to Florida, Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, St. Thomas and Virgin Islands (Azevedo Ferreira de & Tavares, 2019: 192).

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-20 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas). 0-20 m. WA.
Pachycheles rugimanus - Schmitt, 1935: 184, St Thomas. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014: tab. 2, Virgin Islands.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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