Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Achelous

Achelous gibbesii (Stimpson, 1859)



World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic. 0-399 m. Mass–GMx, S Carib–Brazil.

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

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-399 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: ICA (Guadeloupe, Barbados). 0-399 m. WA.
Portunus (Portunus) gibbesii - Collins & Morris, 1976: 124, Barbados [Fossil remains].
Portunus gibbesii - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson & C. Carmona-Suarez, Besse 2013,
3 spp. MNHN-IU-2013-5187, st. GN22, 120 m, JL880.
Achelous gibbesii - Luque et al., 2017: 55, Barbados [Fossil remains].
Comment: This 'beautiful iridescent purple and red swimming crab' is reported by Williams (1984) from southern Massachusetts through the Gulf of Mexico along coast to French Guiana, but reported absent from the Antilles. Its occurrence at 120 m off Guadeloupe during Karubenthos 2012 seems to be the first record for the Lesser Antilles. It is illustrated in color from French Guiana in Takeda (1983).

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Portunus gibbesii – Holthuis, 1959a: 194, Suriname [18–42 m]. — Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 11, Guyana, Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2272, 6°30' N, 55°52' W, 17 fathoms, 31 m; st. 2339, 7°12' N, 57°22’ W, 17 fathoms, 31 m]. – Takeda, 1983: 146, Suriname, French Guiana [34–46 m]. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Guyane 2014 Expedition, 5 lots in MNHN, e.g. MNHN-IU-2013-2624, st. CP4385, 5/08/2014, 48 m, at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2013-2624].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 1–399 m.

Comment(s) on data
Portunus gibbesii (Stimpson, 1859) accepted as Achelous gibbesii (Stimpson, 1859) in WoRMS (August, 2022).

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