Decapoda - Brachyura - Aethridae - Hepatus

Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959

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World Distribution
(Sasaki, 2022) - WA - Western Atlantic: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyanas to Brazil (Santa Catarina). French Guina (Iles du Salut), Brazil (Amapá to 27°S). 20-60 m. 7 m in MNHN.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 7-60 m

Lesser Antilles data
Hepatus gronovii - Correction in September 2025 (J. Poupin), from photo of Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785), Guadeloupe - Karubenthos 2012, det. E. Macpherson, Besse 2013, st. GN29, lot JL1154, MNHN IU-2013-6699. This specimen is more certainly H. gronovii, very close to H. scaber Holthuis, 1959 but this later species has setae at tip of P2-P3, absent on present photo.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959a: 178, French Guiana [27 m]. — Coelho, 1969, table 1: Brazil Amapá [also north of Pará]. — Fausto Filho & Sampaio Neto, 1976: 69, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos, 1972: 181, Brazil Amapá. — Takeda, 1983: 126, Suriname, French Guiana [30–50 m]. — Barreto et al., 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá [Also Guianas]. — Melo, 1996: 130, Brazil Amapá. — Melo et al., 1998: 446, Brazil Amapá. — Silva et al., 1998: 88, Brazil Amapá [75 m]. — Coelho et al., 2008: 9, Brazil Amapá. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [Expedition Iles du Salut 2014, 2 lots in MNHN, st. SD08, SD14, 7 m, MNHN-IU-2013-18535, 2014-8331]. — 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. A. – Durand, 1959: 32, French Guiana [R/V ORSOM II; det. Guinot-Dumortier]. — Guinot-Dumortier, 1959: 512, French Guiana [Iles du Salut, 23–35 m; … deux espèces d'Hepatus qui sont nouvelles pour la faune carcinologique américaine. Ces deux espèces étaient également présentes dans la collection de Suriname étudiée par Holthuis et leur description est actuellement sous presse… Afin de permettre l'identification d'Hepatus sp. A, nous en publions le premier pléopode mâle (fig. 12 a-c); see Remark].
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 7–60 m.
Remark – The male pleopod figured by Guinot (1959, fig. 12a-c) is overall similar to that of H. gronovii in Holthuis (1959a, fig. 43). Comparison of specimens is nevertheless needed to confirm that 'Hepatus sp. A.' is really H. gronovii because H. scaber Holthuis, 1959a could be also considered.

Hepatus gronovii – French Guiana, photo JB Juhel, CNRS centre de Montabo, “stock crevette 3”, station F6N-5, 01/04/2025, det. J. Poupin from photo. (H. scaber cannot be totally excluded).

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