Decapoda - Brachyura - Portunidae - Achelous
| Achelous tumidulus Stimpson, 1871 |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - 1-75 m, Ber, S Fla–GMx, Antil, Carib–Brazil
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), ICA (St Martin, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Martinique), IOV (Cubagua, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). 1-75 m. WA.
Cronius bispinosus - Nobili, 1898: 2, St Thomas [coll. Duchassaing] - Cronius bispinosus Miers, 1886 accepted as Achelous tumidulus Stimpson, 1871 in WoRMS (2016).
Cronius tumidulus - Rathbun, 1920a: 18, St Eustatius, Curaçao, Aruba [coll. J. Boeke]. - Rathbun, 1930: 142, pl. 64, St Thomas, St Eustatius, Curaçao, Aruba [coll. R/V Albatross, St Thomas, 17-24 Jan. 1884]. - Rathbun, 1933: 51, St Thomas. - Rathbun, 1936: 383, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Chace, 1956: 155, Los Roques. - Rodríguez, 1980: 326, Bonaire, Curaçao [from literature]. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen].
Achelous tumidulus - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 16/04/2012, UF32157 (in Evans, 2018, PeerJ, xls file supplementary material), photo dSTM_2676; 20/04/2012, UF32325, photo dSTM_3818 - Martinique, photo in situ Y. Buske, October 2015, det. J. Poupin, February 2016 [based on blue band on fingers of chelipeds].
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Cronius tumidulus – Takeda, 1983: 154, Suriname, French Guiana [45 m]. — Coelho & Ramos-Porto, 1992: 295, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al., 2008: 29, Brazil Amapá [From Coelho & Ramos-Porto (1992)].
Achelous tumidulus – Alves et al., 2012b: 944, Brazil Amapá [In distribution, from Melo, 1998].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 1–75 m.
Comment(s) on data
UF32157, St Martin 2012, S side of Baie de l'Embouchure, near drainage of Étang aux Poissons, coll. Paulay, Gustav; Slapcinsky, John; Bemis, Mandy; Michonneau, François; Anker, Arthur; Marechal, Jean-Philippe; Whitener, Zachary, 2012-04-16.
Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Guianas. –
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database