Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Achelous

Achelous spinimanus (Latreille, 1819)

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World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic. 1-393 m, Ber, NJer–GMx, Antil, Carib–Brazil

Brazil (from Pará to Rio Grande do Sul)

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

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-393 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Saba, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Aruba). 1-393 m. WA.
Achelous spinimanus - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 230, pl. 39, fig. 2, Antilles. - Doflein, 1899: 180, Martinique.
Lupea spinimana - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 37, Guadeloupe [n°117, dry collection MNHN 18836; 'La Guadeloupe, se rencontre souvent dans les nasses à de grandes profondeurs, Cirique de mer']. - Faxon, 1896: 144, Saba Bank [R/V Blake, st. 144, 21 fathoms] - Accepted as Portunus (Achelous) spinimanus (Latreille, 1819) in Rathbun (1930: 62). - Questel, 2019: 20, St Barthélemy.
Neptunus (Achelous) spinimanus - A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1923: 312, Saba [R/V Blake, st. 144, 21 brasses]
Portunus (Achelous) spinimanus - Rathbun, 1920a: 16, St Martin, Aruba [coll. J. Boeke, 1905]. - Rathbun, 1930: 62, pl. 26-28, St Thomas, St Martin, Aruba. - Rathbun, 1933: 46, St Thomas. - Hernández et al., 1999: tab. 2, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen].
Portunus spinimanus - Powers, 1977: 86, Trinidad [From unidentified reference].
Portunus spinimanus - Guadeloupe - Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson & C. Carmona-Suarez, Besse 2013, 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-5420, st. GB03,22 m, JL321; 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-5371, st. GB13, 10 m, JL747; 1 sp. MNHN-IU-2013-5305, st. GD48, 27 m, JL1236.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 – Holthuis, 1959a: 199, Suriname [27–44 m]. — Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 11, Guyana, Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2249, 7°40' N, 57°34' W, 30 fathoms, 55 m; st. 2261, 7°20’ N, 56°49’ W, 33 fathoms, 60 m; st. 2262, 7°18' N, 56°49’ W, 33 fathoms, 60 m; st. 2335, 6°50' N, 55°34’ W, 28 fathoms, 51 m; st. 2338, 6°52’ N, 55°30’ W, 29 fathoms, 53 m]. — Takeda, 1983: 149, Suriname, French Guiana [34–53 m]. — Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Guianas, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel, 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana.
Portunus (Achelous) spinimanus – Coelho et al., 2008: 30, Brazil Amapá [From Barreto et al. (1993a)]. — Cintra et al., 2017: tab. 1–6, Brazil Amapá [bycatch of shrimp fisheries, 0-4°N, 27–47 m].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 1–393 m.

Comment(s) on data
In Achelous spinicarpus, spine on carpus of cheliped is much longer.

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