Decapoda - Brachyura - Chasmocarcinidae - Chasmocarcinus

Chasmocarcinus typicus Rathbun, 1898


World Distribution
Rathbun (1918) - Off Trinidad and Cape Frio Brazil, 31-59 fathoms.
Ng & Castro (2016, Zootaxa) - West Indies (Anguilla) to Brazil (south to Rio Grande do Sul). Depth: 9?380 m.
(Sasaki, 2019, list) - Brazil (Amapá, Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 9-380 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: ICA (Anguilla, Trinidad). 50-296 m. WA.
Chasmocarcinus typicus Rathbun, 1898: 286, Trinidad [R/V Albatross, st. 2121-2122, 31-34 fathoms]. - Rathbun, 1918: 56, Trinidad [R/V Albatross, Feb. 3, 1884, st. 2121-2122, 31-34 fathoms]. - A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1923: 343, Trinidad [31-34 brasses]. - Ng & Castro, 2016: 14, Anguilla, Trinidad.
Chasmocarcinus chacei Felder & Rabalais, 1986: 549, Anguilla (questionable record, 296 m) [R/V Oregon II, st. 5913, off Anguilla, 18°11'N, 63°15'W, 296 m, 25/02/1956, 1 exuviae, here listed tentatively as C. chacei USNM 228470] - Not Chasmocarcinus chacei fide Ng & Castro (2016: 18, 'this record actually represents C. typicus).

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapŕ)
Chasmocarcinus typicus – Holthuis, 1959a: 235, Suriname. — Fausto Filho & Sampaio Neto, 1976: 69, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al., 2008: 12, Brazil Amapá [List]. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [5 lots in MNHN, 23–50 m, det. not indicated; e.g. st. CP4344, 47 m, MNHN-IU-2013-2410 at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2013-2410].
Chasmocarcinus rathbuni Bouvier, 1917 – Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [4 lots in MNHN, 36–200 m, det. not indicated; e.g. st. CP4363, 197–200 m, MNHN-IU-2013-2874 at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2013-2874]. Chasmocarcinus rathbuni accepted as Chasmocarcinus typicus Rathbun, 1898, in WoRMS (August, 2023].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 9–380 m.

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