Decapoda - Brachyura - Dromiidae - Dromia

Dromia erythropus (Georges Edwards in Gatesby, 1771)

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World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - 1-360 m. Ber, NCar–GMx, Bah, Cuba–Brazil
(Tavares & Mendonça 2022, Zootaxa) - Dromia erythropus is the only western Atlantic species in the genus, where it is known to occur from Bermuda southward to Brazil (Maranhão to Santa Catarina) . This is the first record of D. erythropus from the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago, Canopus Bank off Ceará, Trindade and Martin Vaz Archipelago, and the Vitória–Trindade Seamount Chain (Dogaressa Bank). The species has also been recorded from the oceanic islands of Fernando de Noronha (Viana et al. 2003), Ascension and Saint Helena (Manning & Chace 1990).

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with sponges

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-360 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix), ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, St Eustatius, Isla de Aves, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Bonaire,Curaçao). 1-360 m. WA.
Dromia lator - Streets, 1872: 133, St Martin - Dromia lator H. Milne Edwards, 1837 accepted as Dromia erythropus (Edwards in Catesby, 1771) in WoRMS (2016).
Dromia erythropus - Rathbun, 1920a: 14, St Eustatius [coll. J. Boeke, 1905]. - Rathbun, 1921: 65, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1924: 13, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Rathbun, 1936: 388, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Rathbun, 1937: 31, St Thomas, St Croix, St Eustatius, Dominica, Barbados, Bonaire, Curaçao. - Holthuis, 1959: 76, St Martin [Museum Philadelphia, coll. Van Rijgersma]. - Abele & Kim, 1986: 39, St Thomas to Barbados, Netherland Antilles. - Garcia et al., 1998: 27, tab. 1, Isla de Aves [Also from literature]. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga. - Tagliafico et al., 2005: tab. 1, Margarita (Los Frailes). - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: appendix, Cubagua [From literature]. - Questel, 2019: 29, St Barthélemy.
Dromia erythropus - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 18/4/2012, UF32266, photo dSTM_6068.
Dromia erythropus - Martinique, photo in situ Y. Buske, det J. Poupin [First identification as Moreiradromia antillensis but size and pink color of fingers indicates more D. erythropus instead]; groupe BIOSPHERES, November 2015, coll. R. Ferry & Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Dromia erythropus – Takeda, 1983: 110, Suriname, French Guiana [5–25 m]. — Silva et al., 1998: 87, Brazil Amapá [123 m]. — Coelho et al., 2008: 7, Brazil Amapá [From Silva et al. (1998)]. — Alves et al., 2012b: 941, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al., 2017: tab. 1-6, Brazil Amapá [bycatch of shrimp fisheries, 0–4°N, 27–47 m]. — Silva et al., 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 1–360 m.

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