Mithrax hispidus (Herbst, 1790)

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 : 24-25

Mithrax hispidus (Herbst, 1790)

( Fig. 10C )

Cancer hispidus Herbst, 1790: 245 pl. 18, fig.100; [type-locality: unknown; type in Museum f̧r Naturkunde, Berlin].

Mithrax hispidus .—H. Milne Edwards 1834: 322; Schomburgk 1848: 65; de Saussure 1858: 423; Desbonne in Desbonne, & Schramm 1867: 7; H. Milne Edwards 1873–1880: 93; Rathbun 1897: 10; Jones 1969: 381; Rathbun 1924: 20; Melo 1996: 237, unnumbered fig.; Alves et al. 2012: 943; Boos et al. 2012: 1028; Lira et al. 2013: 54, tab. 1; Klompmaker et al. 2015: 3, tab.1; Assugeni et al. 2017: 1630, tab. 1; Windsor & Felder 2017: 232; Poupin 2018: 195; Mantelatto et al. 2020: 40 , fig. 13D.

Mithrax laevimanus Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 7 , pl. 1, figs. 1–2; A. Milne-Edwards 1875: 94; Miers 1886: 86; Rathbun 1901: 67.

Mithrax depressus A. Milne-Edwards, 1875: 96 ; Miers 1886: 86; Verrill 1900: 577; Rathbun 1901: 68; Verrill 1908: 407; Hay & Shore 1918: 458; Rathbun 1921: 83.

Mithrax caribbaeus Rathbun, 1920: 23 ; Rathbun 1921: 83, pl. 3; 1924: 20; Jones 1969: 381; Rodriguez 1980: 287; Abele & Kim 1986: 526.

Mithrax (Mithrax) hispidus . — Rathbun 1925: 406, fig. 124, pls. 145–146; pl. 147, fig. 3; Boone 1927: 38; Williams 1965: 256, figs. 236, 245C; Coelho & Ramos 1972: 215; Collin & Morris 1976: 119; pl. 17, figs. 2–3; Powers 1977: 56; Scelzo & Varela 1988: 37; Williams 1984: 333, figs. 268, 275d; Keith 1985: 259, fig. 5C; Wagner 1990: 17; García et al. 1998: 27; Carré 2005: 23.

Damithrax hispidus . — Windsor & Felder 2014: 160.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (Delaware to Florida), Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, St. Thomas, St. Martin, St. Croix, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Isla de Aves, Martinique, Barbados, Los Testigos, Coche, Isla de Margarita, Isla de Cubagua, Isla de Blanquilla, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba, French Guiana, and Brazil ( Williams 1984; Poupin 2018; Mantelatto et al. 2020).

Material examined. Barbados, Schooner Bay, St. Peter, subtidal, 13°14’40.82”N, 59°38’41.97”W, 1 Ô CW: 11.2 mm ( BLSZ 029 ). Carlisle Bay , St. Michael, subtidal, 13°05’7.15”N, 59°36’36.90”W, 1 Ô CW: 10.2 mm ( MZUSP 40924 ) .

Remarks. Specimens of Mithrax hispidus were caught in crab traps (~ 4 m deep) on the west and south coasts of Barbados. First reported by Schomburgk (1848: 65) and later reported by Jones (1969: 381) for Barbados. The Barbados-Antigua Expedition in 1918 did not report any specimens of Mithrax hispidus for Barbados. Collin & Morris (1976) reported specimens of Mithrax hispidus collected from Pliocene coral rock formation at Gibbons, Christ Church, Barbados. This species was assigned to the genus Damithrax by Windsor & Felder (2014). Subsequently, however, Windsor & Felder (2017) showed Damithrax to be a junior synonym of Mithrax and accordingly reassigned Damithrax hispidus to Mithrax .

Genus Nemausa A. Milne-Edwards, 1875

Figures

FIGURE 10. Superfamily Majoidea Samouelle, 1819, dorsal habitus:A, Mithraculus coryphe (Herbst, 1801), male, cw 8.2 mm (BLSZ 121); B, Mithraculus forceps A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, female, cw 15.4 mm (BLSZ 208); C, Mithrax hispidus (Herbst, 1790), male (juv.), cw 11.2 mm (BLSZ 029). Scale bars: A, B: 20 mm; C = 10 mm.