Decapoda - Brachyura - Aethridae - Osachila
| Osachila tuberosa Stimpson, 1871 |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic. 40-190 m. NCar–GMx, Antil–nS Am, Brazil. 280 is from Paulmier (1993).
Western Atlatnic: North Carolina, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Venezuela, and Brazil (from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Grande do Sul)
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 40-280 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Croix), ICA, (Anguilla, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St Vincent, Barbados, Grenada), IOV (Curaçao). 40-280 m. WA.
Osachila tuberosa - A. Milne-Edwards, 1880a: 20, St Croix, Anguilla, Montserrat, Dominique, St Vincent, Barbados, Grenada [coll. Stimpson, Sombréro=Anguilla, 54 brasses; R/V Blake, 76-164 brasses]. - A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1923: 304, St Croix, Montserrat, Dominica, St Vincent, Grenada, Barbados [R/V Blake, st. 132, Santa Cruz, 115 brasses; st. 155-56, Montserrat, 88 brasses; st. 177, Dominique, 118 brasses; st. 192, Dominique, 198 brasses; st. 232, St Vincent, 88 brasses; st. 253, Grenada, 92 brasses; st. 254, Grenada, 164 brasses; st. 272, Barbades, 76 brasses]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 265 (between Curaçao and Falcon State, Venezuela, 80 m). - Paulmier, 1993: 24, Martinique [R/V Polka, 280 m]
Osachila tuberosa - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson, Besse 2013; 1 sp., MNHN-IU-2013-4546, st. GN16, 75 m, JL663, photo (carapace not much eroded=O. tuberosa); 3 spp., MNHN-IU-2013-6730, st. GN24, 130 m, JL936 (note: MNHN-IU-2013-4545, det. O. tuberosa, E. Macpherson, st. GN14, 150 m, JL333, photo, with carapace eroded, corrected to O. antillensis by J. Poupin, October 2013).
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Osachila tuberosa – GBIF 2023, Suriname [From Complementary Benthic Biodiversity Baseline Survey, Block 58, Suriname, 2021, trawl, 63–146 m, det. Ugalde & Conejeros-Vargas, 4 occurrences, 63–146 m, e.g. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/3913939583].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 40–280 m.
Remark – See Poupin (2018: 174) for difficulty to separate O. antillensis and O. tuberosa, potentially conspecific. From the same GBIF dataset Osachila semilevis Rathbun, 1916 is also listed from Suriname (at https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/3913938814). Pending a more formal publication, it is not listed herein because too far from usual geographic range of this species (North Carolina to Gulf of Mexico only in Felder et al., 2009).
Comment(s) on data
Based on the eroded/not much eroded aspect of carapace, it seems that both O. antillensis/O. tuberosa are present in Guadeloupe, and that some lots have been confused, i.e. MNHN-IU-2013-4545, det. Besse, mars 2013, GN14, JL333, as O. tuberosa, has an eroded carapace and is probably O. antillensis.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database