Decapoda - Brachyura - Grapsidae - Goniopsis
| Goniopsis cruentata (Latreille, 1803) |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic. 2 m< - Ber, E Fla–GMx, Antil, Carib–Brazil. - Chace & Hobbs (1969: 163) - Bermudas to Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil (Bermudas, Eleuthera I., New Providence I., Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, Dominica, Barbados, Islas Los Roques, Curacao, Isla de Providencia); but 'eastern Atlantic from
Senegal to northern Angola' is now Goniopsis pelii (Herklots, 1851) (cf. Manning & Holthuis, 1981). Also Guadeloupe.
(Sasaki 2022) - Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Roca Atoll, and from Pará to Santa Catarina)
Environnement : Marine & Land - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-0 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix), Lesser Antilles ICA (St Martin, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Los Roques, Curaçao). Terrestrial - Intertidal. WA.
Grapsus cruentatus - H. Milne Edwards, 1834-1840: 85, Habite les Antilles. - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 48, Guadeloupe [MNHN dry collection n°151 B-18805; photo].
Goniopsis cruentata - Rathbun, 1918: 238, Barbados, Curaçao. - Rathbun, 1920a: 24, Curaçao [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1921: 77, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1924: 18, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Chace, 1956: 158, Los Roques. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 160, St Thomas, St Croix, Dominica, Barbados, Los Roques, Curacao. - Hagen, 1977: 33, Trinidad. - Rodríguez, 1980: 378, Margarita. - Hernández et al., 1999: tab. 2, Margarita [Laguna de Las Marites]. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: appendix, Cubagua [From literature]. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen]. - Guinot et al., 2018 (Zoosystema): 551, male 40.9 × 49.8 mm, Martinique, coll. M. Plée, dry, MNHN-IU-2000-3407 (= MNHN-B3407) (see N. K. Ng et al. In press: fig. 3D).
Goniopsis cruentata - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 16/04/2012, UF32164, photo dSTM_2775 - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. J. Poupin Besse, 2013, remains of carapace, chelae, legs, JL723, MNHN-IU-2013-6654, GM16 (mangrove) - Martinique, photo in mangrove, R. Marraud des Grottes, 2016.
Grapsus cruentatus - Ng et al., 2019 (Zoosystema): 104, NEOTYPE (by present designation). — MNHN-IU-2000-3407 (= MNHN-B3407), ? 40.9 × 49.8mm, Martinique, coll. M. Plée. — Original label: “Grapsus cruentatus Latreille, Martinique, M. Plée”; “Plée, Martinique, 1826, n°28” is written with Chinese ink directly on the left cheliped.
Guinot et al., 2013: 285, Goniopsis cruentata (Latreille, 1803), male 38.0 × 44.0 mm, Guadeloupe (MNHN-B24654)
Goniopsis cruentata - Parasram et al. (2021, Zootaxa: 469, fig. 11) - Barbados
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Grapsus longipes Randall, 1840: 125, Suriname [supposed to have been brought from Surinam by Dr. Herring]. Grapsus longipes Randall, 1840 accepted as Goniopsis cruentata (Latreille, 1803) in WoRMS (August, 2023).
Goniopsis cruentatus Latreille – Kingsley, 1880: 1990, Suriname [Dr Hering, Randall's type of G. longipes]. — Young, 1900: 278, Suriname. — Holthuis, 1959a: 235, Suriname [Probably the first Suriname record of this species is that by Fermin (1765) who speaks of "le Crabe marbré, dont la tête est lisse & parsemée de différentes couleurs ..."]. — Buranelli & Mantelatto, 2019: tab. 1, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá.
Goniopsis cruentata – Amouroux & Tavares, 2005: 74, tab. 1, French Guiana. — Amouroux & Tavares, 2012: 160, French Guiana. — Aschenbroich et al., 2016: 66, fig. 6, French Guiana [Sediment reworking activities in mangroves].
Pachygrapsus corrugatus – Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [From Iles du Salut 2014 Expedition, st. SM04, shoreline, 01/10/2014, det. Not indicated, MNHN-IU-2014-8309 at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2014-8309]. Not Pachygrapsus corrugatus but probably ?Goniopsis cruentata instead; provisional re-determination J. Poupin, August 2023, based only on photograph at MNHN link.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Terrestrial (mangrove).
Comment(s) on data
First Id for Karubenthos 2012, erroneously, as Ucides cordatus: carapace and additional pair of separated chela is obviously from G. cruentata (see photos).
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database