Decapoda - Brachyura - Epialtidae - Macrocoeloma

Macrocoeloma subparallelum (Stimpson, 1860)



World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic - 1-25 m. GMx, Cuba–S Antil, nS Am, Brazil. 55 m in Bullis & Thompson (1965).

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-55 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (Guadeloupe, Barbados), IOV (Blanquilla). 1-25 m. WA.
Pericera subparallela Stimpson, 1860: 186, St Thomas [coll. A.H. Riise].
Pericera Vilpini Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 12, pl. 5, fig. 14-15, Guadeloupe [n°43/44, Habite les côtes rocheuses de la Guadeloupe, trouvé au Moule, rare …Tous les caractères de ce Pericera s'assimilent si bien avec ceux donnés par M. Stimpson à son Pericera subparallela, que je n'ai pas hésité à les considérer comme appartenant à la même espèce].
Pericera subparallela. - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 54, pl. 13, fig. 3, 3d, St Thomas, Guadeloupe.
Macrocoeloma subparallelum - Nobili, 1898: 1, St Thomas [coll. Duchassaing]. - Rathbun, 1921: 87, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1925: 480, pl. 172, St Thomas, Guadeloupe, Barbados. - Monod, 1939: 561, Guadeloupe [entre Anse Dupuis et Vieux Fort, 03/1936]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 293, St Thomas, Guadeloupe, Barbados [In distribution]. - Scelzo & Varela, 1988: 36, Blanquilla. - Lira et al., 2013: tab. 1, Blanquilla. - Carmona-Suárez & Poupin, 2016: 359, Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. Carmona-Suárez, Besse 2013, 1 male MNHN-IU-2013-13081 (JL355-2), st. GM07, 1 m; 1 male MNHN-IU-2013-4961 (JL396-3), st. GM08, 1 m.

Macrocoeloma subparallelum — Parasram et al., 2023 (Zootaxa): 18, Barbados

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Macrocoeloma subparallelum – Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 13, Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2249, 7°40’ N, 57°34’ W, 55 m]. — Melo, 1996: 220, Brazil Amapá. — Melo, 1998: 462, Brazil Amapá [?From Coelho, 1971]. — Alves et al., 2012, tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 1–55 m.
Remark – The specimen reported by Bullis & Thompson (1965) must be in NHMN collection under USNM 10346 (at http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3fd8a13c5-e29d-4fbb-8d60-fcc837ff4f69). It has been re-identified (June 2018) as Macrocoeloma eutheca (Stimpson, 1871), by J. Colavite. Pending a more formal publication it is left herein under M. subparellelum, its first identification in the NHMN collection.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database