Eurypanopeus abbreviatus ( Stimpson, 1860 )

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 : 38

Eurypanopeus abbreviatus ( Stimpson, 1860)

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Panopeus abbreviatus Stimpson 1860: 211 [type-locality: Barbados; type probably in USNM; coll., Theo. Gill].

Eurypanopeus abbreviatus . —A. Milne-Edwards 1880: 320, pl. 59, fig. 3; Rathbun 1897: 19; 1921: 70; 1924: 14; 1930: 407, pl. 173, figs. 3–4; 1933: 64; 1936: 385; Williams 1965: 94, fig. 178, 183K; Coelho & Ramos 1973: 191; Felder 1973: 68; Rodríguez 1980: 361; Williams 1984: 407, figs. 322, 331i; Abele & Kim 1986: 56; Melo 1996: 349, unnumbered fig.; Carré 2005: 23; Bertini et al. 2004: 220; Boos et al. 2012: 1030; Garcia & Capote 2015: 14, figs. 6d–f; Poupin 2018: 211, fig. 236; Mantelatto et al. 2020: 72 , fig. 20A; Tavares & Mendonça 2022: 73.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (South Carolina), Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, Isla de Margarita, Isla de Cubagua, Tortuga, Curaçao, and Brazil ( Rathbun 1897; Williams 1984; Poupin 2018).

Material examined. Barbados, Jordans, St. James , nearshore rubble, 13°14’48.24”N, 59°38’40.90”W, 2 Ô, 1 ♀ CW: 18.7, 16.5, 10.5 mm ( BLSZ 155 ) . Drill Hall , St. Michael, nearshore rubble, 13°04’36.30”N, 59°36’26.63”W, 1 Ô, 1 ♀ CW: 8.1, 12.2 mm ( BLSZ 174 ) . Idem , 1 Ô CW: 10.5 mm ( MZUSP 40877 ) . Idem , Ô CW: 17.9 mm ( BLSZ 272 ) .

Remarks. Specimens of Eurypanopeus abbreviates were collected on the west and south coasts of Barbados by hand in nearshore rubble habitat at low tide under rubble rock. It was first reported from Barbados as Panopeus abbreviatus by Stimpson (1860: 211), and by A. Milne-Edwards (1880: 320; pl. 59, fig. 3) as Eurypanopeus abbreviatus . The Barbados-Antigua Expedition in 1918 did not report any specimens of Eurypanopeus abbreviatus from Barbados.

Figures

FIGURE 18. Superfamily Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838, dorsal habitus: A, Eurypanopeus abbreviatus (Stimpson, 1860), male, cw 17.9 mm (BLSZ 210); B, Heteractaea ceratopus (Stimpson, 1860), male, cw 12.9 mm (BLSZ 122); C, Paractaea nodosa (Stimpson, 1860), male, cw 6.1 mm (BLSZ 215). Scale bars: 10 mm (A, B); 5 mm (C).