Platyactaea setigera (H. Milne Edwards, 1834 )

Parasram, Nadeshinie, Santana, William & Vallès, Henri, 2023, Checklist of the shallow-water marine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Barbados, West Indies, Zootaxa 5314 (1), pp. 1-62 : 40

Platyactaea setigera (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

( Fig. 19A )

Xantho setigera H. Milne Edwards 1834: 390 [type-locality: “Antilles”; type in MNHN].

Actaea setigera .— Stimpson 1859: 51; A. Milne-Edwards, 1866: 271, pl. 18, fig. 2; Rathbun 1897: 13; 1921: 71; 1924: 15; 1930: 251, pl. 103; 1933: 55; 1936: 384; Chace 1956: 155.

Platyactaea setigera . — Guinot 1967: 561, fig. 36; Lemaitre 1981: 257; Keith 1985: 267, fig. 9D; Abele & Kim 1986: 61; Felder et al. 2009: 1085; Garcia & Capote 2015: 14, figs. 7a–c; Poupin 2018: 220.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (Swan Island, Florida), Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, Honduras, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Isla de Aves, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Isla de Margarita, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Los Roques, Aruba, and Colombia ( Rathbun 1897; Keith 1985; Poupin 2018).

Material examined. Barbados, Jordans, St. James, nearshore rubble, 13°14’48.24”N, 59°38’40.90”W, 1 Ô CW: 19.9 mm ( BLSZ 036 ). Drill Hall , St. Michael, nearshore rubble, 13°04’36.30”N, 59°36’26.63”W, 1 ♀ CW: 16.5 mm ( BLSZ 216 ) .

Remarks. Specimens of Platyactaea setigera were collected by hand in nearshore rubble habitat, under rock rubble, on the west coast of Barbados. Rathbun (1921: 71) reported specimens of Actaea setigera ( one juvenile male, USNM 57988; one juvenile female, USNM 76718; one male, USNM 57989; one juvenile female, USNM 57987; one male, one juvenile female, USNM 76700; one juvenile male, USNM 69036; one male, four juveniles, USNM 76717; one male, three juveniles, USNM 76702; one juvenile, USNM 75153) collected in Barbados during the Barbados-Antigua Expedition in 1918. The Smithsonian-Hartford Expedition in 1937 also collected one specimen ( one juvenile, USNM 75153) from Pelican Island Barbados.

Genus Cataleptodius Guinot, 1968

Figures

FIGURE 19. Superfamily Xanthoidea MacLeay,1838, dorsal habitus:A, Platyactaea setigera(H.Milne Edwards, 1834), female, cw 16.5 mm (BLSZ 216); B, Cataleptodius floridanus (Gibbes, 1850), male, cw 21.7 mm (BLSZ 273); C, Mecataleptodius parvulus (Fabricius, 1793), male, cw 17.3 mm (BLSZ 237); D, Williamstimpsonia denticulatus (White, 1848), male, cw 10.2 mm (BLSZ 254). Scale bars: 20 mm.