Decapoda - Brachyura - Epialtidae - Macrocoeloma

Macrocoeloma diplacanthum (Stimpson, 1860)

4 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Rodríguez (1980: 282) - Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Curaçao, Venezuela. Felder et al. (2009) - 1-29 m, Fla Keys, Bah, Cuba–S Antil, Col

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-29 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix), ICA (Guadeloupe), IOV (Tortuga, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao). 1-29 m. WA.
Pericera diplacantha Stimpson, 1860: 183, St Thomas [coll. A.H. Riise]. - Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 15, pl. 5, fig. 16-18, Guadeloupe. - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 55, pl. 13, fig. 2-2d, St Thomas, Guadeloupe.
Macrocoeloma diplacanthum - Rathbun, 1924: 21, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Rathbun, 1925: 478, pl. 169, fig. 1, pl. 269, fig. 1-3, St Thomas, St Croix, Guadeloupe, Curaçao. - Rathbun, 1936: 382, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 291, Tortuga. - Marcano & Bolaños, 2001: 79, Los Roques. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga [Also from literature]. - Lira et al., 2013: tab. 1, Tortuga, Los Roques. - Carmona-Suárez & Poupin, 2016: 358, Guadeloupe, Karubenthos 2012, 1 male MNHN-IU-2013-4260 (lot JL252-2, re-det J. Poupin December 2015, sp. with typical bifid postero-lateral spine, cf. Fig. 5D (first identification as M. trispinosum), st. GM06, 1 m; 1 male MNHN-IU-2013-14653 (lot JL700-2), st. GM14, 1 m; 1 ov. female MNHN-IU-2013-5957 (lot JL1444), st. GM34, 1 m; 1 female MNHN-IU-2013-6755 (lot JL1266), st. GD49, 3 m; 1 female juv. MNHN-IU-2013-14652 (lot JL55-4), st. GR01, 3 m.

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