Decapoda - Brachyura - Pilumnidae - Pilumnus

Pilumnus reticulatus Stimpson, 1860


World Distribution
Rathbun (1930: 522), West Indies and Caribbean sea (St Thomas, Virgin Islands, Curaçao), Panama, Brazil, Patagonia. Virgin Islands (St Thomas), Lesser Antilles, ICA (Guadeloupe), IOV (Curaçao).

intertidal to 75 m, on mud and shell bottoms

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-75 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix), ICA (Guadeloupe), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Curaçao). 1-20 m. WA.
Pilumnus reticulatus Stimpson, 1860: 214, St Thomas [coll. A.H. Riise]. - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 294, St Thomas. - Rathbun, 1930: 521, St Thomas, Curaçao. - Rathbun, 1933: 73, St Thomas. - Rodríguez, 1980: 367, Margarita. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua.
Pilumnus fragosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (1873-1880): 296, pl. 52, fig. 1, St Thomas. - Nobili, 1898: 2, St Thomas [coll. Duchassaing]. - Accepted as Pilumnus reticulatus Stimpson, 1860 in WoRMS (2016).
Pilumnus reticulatus forma fragosa - Rathbun, 1933: 73, St Thomas, St Croix.
Pilumnus reticulatus - Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, st. GM02, 1 m, JL26.
Comment: Guadeloupe specimen (Karubenthos 2012, st. GM02), was pre-determined by J. Poupin (October 2013) as Pilumnus aff. Gemmatus, corrected by D. Felder (from photo 28/03/2014) to more probably Pilumnus reticulatus. This specimen was not retreived in MNHN collection.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Pilumnus reticulatus – Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al., 2008: 27, Brazil Amapá [From Barreto et al. (1993a)]. — Alves et al., 2012b: 944, Brazil Amapá [In distribution, from Melo, 1998]. — Pachelle et al., 2016: 30, Brazil Amapá [In distribution].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 1–75 m.

Comment(s) on data
Pilumnus tessellatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 295, pl. 51, fig. 2 (Brazil) - accepted as Pilumnus reticulatus Stimpson, 1860

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