Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Callinectes

Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863



World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic. 0-75 m. Ber, Vir–E GMx, Carib–Brazil

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-75 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix), Lesser Antilles, ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, St Eustatius, Barbuda, Antigua, Guadeloupe, St Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). 1-75 m. WA.
Lupea rubra - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 38, Guadeloupe [n°118 mâle, n°119 femelle, dry collection MNHN 18837; Guadeloupe] - In H. Milne Edwards (1834-1840: 454) Lupea rubra is the same as Portunus ruber Lamarck, 1818; however, according to dry specimen of Desbonne [n°118 in MNHN B18837], examined for this study, this record is not of Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818) but Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 instead.
Callinectes ornatus - Nobili, 1898: 2, St Thomas [coll. Duchassaing]. - Rathbun, 1920a: 17, St Martin, St Eustatius, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba [coll. J. Boeke, 1905]. - Rathbun, 1921: 68, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1930: 114, pl. 50, St Thomas, St Croix, St Martin, Guadeloupe, St Lucia, Trinidad, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire. - Rathbun, 1933: 48, St Thomas, St Croix. - Chace, 1956: 154, Los Roques. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 132, St Thomas, St Croix, St Martin, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, St Lucia, Barbados, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curacao, Aruba. - Williams, 1974: 742, St Thomas, St Croix, St Martin, Barbuda, Antigua, Guadeloupe, St Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Cubagua, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba [in part coll. P.W. Hummelinck, R/V Velero III]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 323, Margarita, Cubagua, Los Roques, Aruba, Curaçao. - Hernández et al, 1999: tab. 2, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen]. - Questel, 2019: 21, St Barthélemy.
Callinectes humphreyi H.G. Jones, 1968: not consulted - Accepted as Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 in WoRMS (2016).
Callinectes arcuatus - Hernández & Bolaños, 1995: 77, Margarita. - Hernández et al, 1999: tab. 2, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites] - Not Callinectes arcuatus Ordway, 1863, an eastern Pacific species (?invasive); probably its analogous species in the western Atlantic, C. ornatus (see Robles et al., 2007).
Callinectes ornatus - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 2012, 15/04/2012, UF32102, photo dSTM_5265, UF32107, photo dSTM_5293, UF32140, photo dSTM_5478; (Callinectes ?ornatus) 15/04/2012, UF32103, photo dSTM_5272, UF32104, photo dSTM_5275 - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson C. & Carmona-Suarez, Besse 2013, 2 spp. MNHN-IU-2013-6815, JL749, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-6816, JL503, photo, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-6879, JL749, photo, 2 spp. MNHN-IU-2013-6881, st. GM01, 1 m, JL503; 2 spp. MNHN-IU-2013-6818, st. GM15, 1 m, JL803; 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-4916, JL1231, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-6814, st. GN30, 3 m, JL1231, photo.

Callinectes ornatus - Peres & Mantelatto, 2020, Supplementary Material, tab. S1, St Martin (FLMNH 32103), Trinidad (FLMNH 11249, UF 11249)

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Callinectes ornatus – Durand, 1959: 32, French Guiana [R/V ORSOM II; det. Guinot-Dumortier]. — Holthuis, 1959a: 200, Suriname, French Guiana [7-31 m]. — Guinot-Dumortier, 1959: 514, French Guiana [23–48 m, Iles du Salut]. — Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 11, Guyana, Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2339, 7°12' N, 57°22’ W, 17 fathoms, 31 m]. — Coelho, 1971, table 1: Brazil Amapá [North of Pará]. — Coelho & Ramos, 1972: 187, Brazil Amapá. — Takeda, 1983: 151, Suriname, French Guiana [30–55 m]. — Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Guianas, Brazil Amapá. — Melo, 1996: 317, Brazil Amapá. — Melo, 1998: 476, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel, 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Tricart & Foubert, 2000, tab. 1, French Guiana [List]. — Tavares, 2002d: 349, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al., 2003: 61–62, Brazil Amapá [R/V Almirante Paulo Moreira, 02°08’N, 048°18’W, 01/05/98, 51 m]. — Braga et al., 2005: 30, Brazil Amapá [In distribution]. — Coelho et al., 2008: 28, Brazil Amapá [From Coelho (1969)]. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Guyane 2014 Expedition, 4 lots in MNHN, e.g. MNHN-IU-2013-2470, st. CP4354, 28/07/2014, 50 m, at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2013-2470]. — Cintra et al., 2017: tab. 1-6, Brazil Amapá [bycatch of shrimp fisheries, 0-4°N, 27–47 m]. — Silva et al., 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Peres et al., 2022, French Guiana, Iles du Salut [Supporting information, tab. S1, Iles du Salut, Islet La Mere, MNHN-IU-2013-18523; Ile Saint-Joseph, MNHN-IU-2014-10394; indicated as Callinectes cf. sapidus in online MNHN collections (2023) and in Corbari et al. 2014].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 0–75 m.

Comment(s) on data
St Thomas, St Croix, St Martin, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, St Lucia, Barbados, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curacao, Aruba

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