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Decapoda - Brachyura - Panopeidae - Acantholobulus

Acantholobulus caribbaeus (Stimpson, 1871)

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World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009, Checklist) - 1-55 m. E Fla, Cuba–S Antil, nS Am–Brazil. Virgin Islands (St Thomas).

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

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

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas), ICA (Trinidad), IOV (Curaçao). 1-55 m. WA.
Micropanope caribbea - A. Milne-Edwards, 1873-1880: 328, St Thomas.
Hexapanopeus caribbaeus - Rathbun, 1924: 15, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Rathbun, 1930: 399, pl. 171, fig. 3-5, St Thomas, Trinidad, Curaçao. - Rathbun, 1933: 63, St Thomas. - Hagen, 1977: 42, Trinidad. - Rodríguez, 1980: 360, Trinidad, Curaçao [from Rathbun, 1930].

Comment(s) on data
H. caribbaeus was transferred to Acantholobulus (Thoma et al., 2009; 2014), and only recently adopted in the WoRMS (2023).
Thoma, B.P., Schubart, C.D. & Felder. D.L. (2009) Molecular phylogeny of western Atlantic representatives of the genus Hexapanopeus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Panopeidae). In: Martin J.W., Crandall K.A. and Felder D.L. (eds) Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 551–565.

Thoma, B.P., Guinot, D. & Felder, D.L. (2014) Evolutionary relationships among American mud crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial markers, with comments on adult morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170, 86–109.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database