Decapoda - Brachyura - Xanthidae - Williamstimpsonia

Williamstimpsonia denticulatus (White, 1848)



World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009, Checklist) - Eastern & Western Atlantic - Ber, E Fla–GMx–Brazil, As I, W Afr, 1-21 m. - Rathbun (1930) plus this base - Lesser Antilles: Virgin Islands (St Thomas), ICA (Barbados, Guadeloupe, Trinidad).

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-21 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Isla de Aves, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Blanquilla, Tortuga, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao). 1-21 m. ATL.
Xantho humilis Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 27, Guadeloupe (type locality 'A la Guadeloupe les côtes rocheuses et madréporiques') - Accepted as Williamstimpsonia denticulatus (White, 1848).
Xantho denticulatus - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 252, pl. 45, fig. 2, Antilles. - Nobili, 1898: 2, St Thomas [coll. Duchassaing].
Cycloxanthops denticulatus - Rathbun, 1921: 69, Antigua, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1924: 14, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920].
Xanthodius denticulatus - Rathbun, 1930: 314, pl. 145, fig. 1, pl. 146, St Thomas, Barbados, Trinidad. - Rathbun, 1933: 59, St Thomas. - Rathbun, 1936: 384, Bonaire, Klein Bonaire, Curaçao [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Chace, 1956: 156, Los Roques. - Rodríguez, 1980: 357, Trinidad, Los Roques, Curaçao [from literature]. - Scelzo & Varela, 1988: 48 Blanquilla [indicated by error as X. reticulatus (sic), p. 37]. - Garcia et al., 1998: tab. 1, Isla de Aves. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Carré, 2005: 23, Martinique. - Tagliafico et al., 2005: tab. 1, Margarita (Los Frailes). - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua.
Williamstimpsonia denticulatus - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory, 09/04/2012, UF31867, photo dSTM_0413; 14/04/2012, UF32085, photo dSTM_5170; 16/04/2012, UF32170, photo dSTM_2629, UF32197, photo dSTM_5699; 18/04/2012, UF32231, photo dSTM_3290, UF32230, photo dSTM_3301; 22/04/2012, UF32407, photo dSTM_7054 - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, det. J. Poupin October 2013, 1 male juvenile 9.0 x 13.0 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-14538, JL1458, 1 female ov., MNHN-IU-2013-14532, JL1425a, st. GB32 (4 m); 1 juvenile, MNHN-IU-2013-16311, no JL, st. GD42 (3 m); 1 male 13.7 x 20.3, MNHN-IU-2013-14536, JL17 (photo field), 1 female ov, MNHN-IU-2013-16306, JL34a, st. GM02 (1 m); 1 male 10.2 x 14.8 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-14534, JL126 (photo field), st. GM04 (1 m); 1 juvenile (with sacculina) 6.5 x 9.3 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-14541, JL551 (photo field), st. GM10 (1 m); 1 male 14.9 x 22.2 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-14535, JL673 (field photo), st GM14 (1 m); 1 juvenile, MNHN-IU-2013-14542, JL790 (photo field), 1 juvenile, MNHN-IU-2013-16307, JL782b, st. GM17 (1 m); 1 female, MNHN-IU-2013-14533, JL1016a, st. GM22 (1 m); 1 female juvenile, MNHN-IU-2013-14539, JL1316 (with a different species), st. GM31 (2 m); 1 male, MNHN-IU-2013-16309, JL1371 (photo field), st. GM33 (intertidal); 1 juvenile with sacculina 6.4 x 8.9 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-14540, (photo field), JL1450, st. GM34 (1 m); 1 juvenile, MNHN-IU-2013-16310, JL1485, st. GR50 (4 m); 1 male 10.0 x 14.7 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-14537, JL1475, st. GR52 (10 m); 2 juveniles, MNHN-IU-2013-16308, st. GS34 (15 m), no JL(very small but form of front and faint remains of color on ambulatory legs direct to this very common species, spines on anterolateral margin no fully developed, no pleopods clearly distinct). - Questel, 2019: 24, St Barthélemy.
Comment: New genus Williamstimpsonia is from Štev?i? (2011) with type species Xantho stimpsoni A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, an EP species analogous to Xantho denticulatus White, 1848 in WA.

Williamstimpsonia denticulatus — Parasram et al., 2023 (Zootaxa): 43, Barbados

Comment(s) on data
According to note 413 in Felder et al. (2009): Štev?i? (2005) established a new genus Olivioxantho for Xantho denticulatus, which has also been formerly treated by some authors as Xanthodius denticulatus (nb, Olivioxantho treated as a nomen nudum by Ng et al., 2008); present distributional treatment conforms to that of Manning and Chace (1990), who included both Ascension Island and West African records for this species; Guinot (1968a: 712) earlier suggested that the eastern Atlantic form differed in minor morphological features from that of the western Atlantic, but made no subsequent taxonomic reassignment; records include TCWC 2-2247, 2-2248, and 2-2249 from Isla Lobos in the southwestern GMx, ID by J. P. Ray.

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