Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Callinectes

Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856)

23 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic. 0-8 m. Ber, Atl Fla–SE GMx, Carib–Brazil.

Environnement : Marine & brackish - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-8 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Croix), ICA (St Martin, Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Vincent, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Blanquilla, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). 1-8 m. WA.
Callinectes exasperatus - Rathbun, 1920a: 18, St Martin [coll. J. Boeke, 1905]. - Rathbun, 1930: 130, pl. 56, St Martin. - Chace, 1956: 154, Los Roques. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 131, St Croix, St Martin, Los Roques. - Williams, 1974: 759, St Croix, St Martin, Barbuda, Guadeloupe, St Vincent (Grenadines), Trinidad, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba [in part coll. L.B. Holthuis, J. Boeke, P.W. Hummelinck, Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions, R/V Freelance]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 324, Los Roques, Margarita [Los Roques from Chace, 1956]. - Scelzo & Varela, 1988: 36, Blanquilla. - Hernández et al, 1999: tab. 2, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen].
Callinectes exasperatus - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-6822, det. Macpherson E. & C. Carmona-Suarez C., Besse, 2013, GN29, 5 m, JL1155, photo - Martinique, groupe BIOSPHERES, November 2015, coll. R. Ferry & Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin.

Comment(s) on data
Also - Portunidae spp. - Guadeloupe - Karubenthos 2012 (1-20 m), det. E. Macpherson & C. Carmona-Suarez, Besse 2013 (as Callinectes sp.), several specimens not determined to species level, at least two distinct species, MNHN-IU-2013-5132, st. GD63, 20 m, JL1408, photo; MNHN-IU-2013-6826, JL926, MNHN-IU-2013-6828, st. GM01, 1 m, JL1324, photo; MNHN-IU-2013-5287, st. GM18, 1 m, JL862; MNHN-IU-2013-5186, st. GM21, 2 m, JL943, photo; MNHN-IU-2013-6825, JL1102a, photo, MNHN-IU-2013-6878, st. GM25, 1 m, JL1102b, photo.
Comment: Based on photographs (J. Poupin) it seems that this lot of specimens includes probably Callinectes exasperatus and a Portunus aff. anceps (5132).
Also : Ovalipes sp. - Guadeloupe - Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson & Carmona-Suarez, Besse 2013 - MNHN-IU-2013-6826, st. GM01, JL926, ; MNHN-IU-2013-5186, st. GM21, JL943, Photo; MNHN-IU-2013-6825, st. GM25, JL1102a, Photo; MNHN-IU-2013-6878, st. GM25, JL1102b, Photo; MNHN-IU-2013-6828, st. GM01, JL1324, Photo; MNHN-IU-2013-5132, st. GD63, JL1408, Photo; MNHN-IU-2013-5287, st. GM18, JL862 (nb, J. Poupin, September 2016, examination of photographs JL943, JL1102a-b, JL1324 are more probably a callinectes ?exasperatus; JL1408, more probably Portunus ?anceps; JL862 not located.)

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