Decapoda - Caridea - Thoridae - Thor

Thor dicaprio Anker & Baeza, 2021

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World Distribution
(Anker & Baeza, 2021, Zootaxa) - West Atlantic: throughout Caribbean Sea, with material and/or photographic records from Colombia (Santa Marta), Panama (Bocas del Toro), Honduras (Utila), Belize, Mexico (e.g. Cozumel), Cuba (Isla de la Juventud), Cayman Islands, US Virgin Islands, Antigua, Saint Martin, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Tobago, Bonaire and Curaçao; Gulf of Mexico (Flower Garden Banks off Texas); southern Florida (including Florida Keys); Bahamas (Grand Bahama); Bermuda; Brazil (North Chain, Fernando de Noronha Chain, Trindade eMartim Vaz) (e.g. Chace 1972; Herrnkind et al. 1976; Criales 1984; Sterrer 1986; Wicksten 2005a, 2005b; Coelho Filho 2006; Felder et al. 2009; Baeza & Piantoni 2010; Briones-Fourzán et al. 2012; De Grave & Anker 2017; Tavares et al. 2017; Titus et al. 2018; Poupin 2018 and references therein; all as T. amboinensis; present study). - no depth range, estimated herein 1-30 m

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with anemones

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-30 m

Lesser Antilles data
Thor dicaprio Anker & Baeza, 2021: 495, Type material. Holotype: ovig. female (pocl 3.4 mm), FLMNH UF 32256, French Antilles, Saint Martin, Rocher Créole (Creole Rock), 18°07’02.3”N, 63°03’25.7”W, shallow coral reef, depth less than 5 m, leg. A. Anker, J. Slapcinski, J.P. Maréchal, G. Paulay, A. Bemis and F. Michonneau, 18.04.2012 [fcn BSTM-1118]. Paratypes: 1 male (pocl 2.25 mm), USNM 136412, Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago, Buccoo Reef, Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 04.04.1959.

Plus all previous WA references to T. amboinensis in Poupin (2018, Patrimoines Naturels).
Distribution: ?VGI (St Thomas), Lesser Antilles, ICA (St Martin, St Barthélemy, ?St Eustatius, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, ?Barbados), IOV (Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). 1-60 m. Pantropical.
Thor paschalis (Heller) - Schmitt, 1924b: 70, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Schmitt, 1924a:82, Barbados. - Schmitt, 1935: 151, St Thomas [also Culebra]. - Schmitt, 1936: 370, Bonaire, Aruba [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - All listed herein under T. amboinensis because T. paschalis (Heller, 1862) is an IWP species.
Thor amboinensis - Chace, 1972: 130, fig. 55-56, Antigua, Dominica. - Rodríguez, 1986: tab. 2, Los Roques. - Tagliafico et al., 2005: tab. 1, Margarita (Los Frailes). - Questel, 2014: 12, St Barthélemy.
Thor cf. amboinensis - Faasse, 2016: 52, St Eustatius.
Thor amboinensis - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 2012, UF32256, photo dSTM_6021, 18/4/2012; UF32256, photo dSTM_6034, 18/4/2012. - Guadeloupe, DORIS, 2011: webpage [A. Goyeau]. - Martinique, photo in situ and det. Y. Buske; groupe BIOSPHERES, 2015, coll. R. Ferry (photo n°6), det. J. Poupin.

Comment(s) on data
Goyeau, Guadeloupe (sous T. amboinensis) : Elle vit entre 1 et 30 mètres le plus souvent cachée parmi les tentacules urticants des anémones. Pour la voir il faut chercher sous le panache tentaculaire des anémones hôtes, près du pédoncule.
Http://doris.ffessm.fr/fiche2.asp?fiche_numero=420

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database