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Decapoda - Brachyura - Raninidae - Raninoides

Raninoides laevis (Latreille, 1825)

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World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - 18-200 m. NCar–GMx, Antil–Brazil

USA (North Carolina to Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Venezuela and Brazil (Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, São Paulo)

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

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 18-200 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: ICA (Barbados), IOV (Margarita, ?Tortuga). 18-200 m. WA.
Raninoides loevis (sic) - Rathbun, 1921: 66, Barbados [Barbados-Antigua Expedition 1918]. - Rathbun, 1937: 8, Barbados. - Taissoun, 1982-1983: 58, Margarita.
Raninoides sp. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga - Arbitrarily placed with R. laevis herein.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Raninoides loevis (sic) – Guinot-Dumortier, 1959a: 426, French Guiana [30–65 m]. — Melo et al., 1998: 444, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al., 2008: 8, Brazil Amapá [From Barreto et al. (1993a)].
Raninoides laevis – Durand, 1959: 32, French Guiana, photo 12 [R/V ORSOM II; det. Guinot-Dumortier]. — Holthuis, 1959a: 184, Suriname [35 m]. — Takeda, 1983: 107, Suriname, French Guiana [60 m]. — Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Guianas, Brazil Amapá. — Melo, 1996: 116, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel, 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Guinot et al., 2013, fig. 13-B, French Guiana [Raninoides laevis (Latreille, 1825), French Guiana (MNHN-B16169)]. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Guyane 2014 Expedition, MNHN-IU-2013-2859, st. CP4408, 10/08/2014, 57 m, at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2013-2859].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 18–200 m.

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