Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Achelous

Achelous ventralis (A. Milne-Edwards, 1879)

4 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic. 1-25 m, Ga–GMx, Antil, nS Am, Brazil.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-25 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (St Martin, Guadeloupe, Barbados), IOV (Bonaire). 1-25 m. WA.
Neptunus ventralis A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 (1873-1880): 215, pl. 40, fig. 3, Guadeloupe [un seul exemplaire, une femelle chargée d'œufs, provenant de la Guadeloupe].
Portunus (Portunus) ventralis - Rathbun, 1930: 43, 45, pl. 13, fig. 1-2, St Thomas, Guadeloupe, Barbados. - Rathbun, 1933: 46, St Thomas, Guadeloupe. - Rathbun, 1936: 383, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930].
Portunus ventralis - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 2012, 11/04/2012, UF31908, photo dSTM_0954; 12/04/2012, UF31983, photo dSTM_2393; 16/04/2012, UF32193, photo dSTM_5649; 20/04/2012, UF32351, photo dSTM_6470 (in Evans, 2018, PeerJ, xls supplementary file); UF32374, photo dSTM_6734 - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson & C. Carmona-Suarez, Besse 2013, MNHN-IU-2013-5219, st. GD37, 60 m, JL1064; MNHN-IU-2013-5278, st. GR03, 6 m, JL151.

Achelous ventralis — Parasram et al., 2023 (Zootaxa): 34, Barbados

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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