Decapoda - Brachyura - Aethridae - Hepatus
Hepatus scaber Holthuis, 1959 |
World Distribution
(Sasaki, 2019) - WA - Caribbean Sea side of Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapá to Rio de Janeiro). 9-85 m.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 9-85 m
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapŕ)
Hepatus scaber Holthuis, 1959a: 174, Suriname, French Guiana [Iles du Salut]. — Coelho, 1969, table 1: Brazil Amapá [and north of Pará]. — Coelho & Ramos, 1972: 181, Brazil Amapá [21–85 m]. — Takeda, 1983: 128, Suriname, French Guiana [24–80 m]. — Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá [also Guianas]. — Melo, 1996: 132, Brazil Amapá. — Melo et al., 1998: 446, Brazil Amapá. — Silva et al., 1998: 89, Brazil Amapá [75 m]. — Le Loeuff & Cosel, 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Coelho et al., 2008: 9, Brazil Amapá. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Expedition Iles du Salut 2014, 33 lots in MNHN, 5–7 m]. — 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.
? Hepatus sp. B. – Durand, 1959: 32, French Guiana [R/V ORSOM II; det. Guinot-Dumortier]. — Guinot-Dumortier, 1959: 512, French Guiana [Iles du Salut, 23–45 m;… deux espčces d'Hepatus qui sont nouvelles pour la faune carcinologique américaine. Ces deux espčces étaient également présentes dans la collection de Suriname étudiée par Holthuis et leur description est actuellement sous presse]. Guinot-Dumortier has examined 3 females that must must be compared with H. scaber to confirm our tentative identification.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 9–85 m.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database