Thoe puella 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 : 32

Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860

( Fig. 15B )

Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860: 178 [type-locality: Tortugas, Florida; type not found]; A. Milne-Edwards 1873 – 1880: 122; Rathbun 1897: 11; 1924: 19; 1925: 348; Rodríguez 1980: 227; Keith 1985: 261, fig. 5F; Lira et al. 2013: 54, tab. 1; Garcia & Capote 2015: 11, figs. 5i–j; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016: 378 , fig. 8K; Poupin 2018: 198.

Pisa latipes Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 19.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (Florida), Belize, Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Isla de Aves, Los Roques, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Colombia, and Venezuela ( Rathbun 1897; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016; Poupin 2018; present study).

Material examined. Barbados, One Sandy Lane, St. James , subtidal, 13°10’04.70”N, 59°38’17.48”W, 1 Ô CW: 0.5 mm ( BLSZ 034 ) . Drill Hall , St. Michael, nearshore rubble, 13°04’36.30”N, 59°36’26.63”W, 1 Ô CW: 8.1 mm ( BLSZ 168 ) . Idem , 1 Ô, 1 ♀ CW: 1.0, 1.2 mm ( MZUSP 40917 ) .

Remarks. Thoe puella was found under the same rubble rock as Amphithrax aculeatus , Amphithrax verrucosus , Mithraculus coryphe , and Mithraculus forceps . This is the first record of Thoe puella for Barbados. Collected by hand in nearshore rubble habitat at low tide under rubble rock and caught in crab traps placed on rocky bottoms (~ 4 m deep) on the west and south coasts of Barbados. This species uses crustose coralline algae to camouflage itself under rubble rocks in nearshore rubble habitats. Ovigerous females were collected in June 2021 in nearshore rubble habitat.

Figures

FIGURE 15. Superfamily Majoidea Samouelle, 1819, dorsal habitus:A, Teleophrys ruber (Stimpson, 1871), male, cw 14.5 mm (BLSZ 232); B, Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860, male, cw 1.0 mm (MZUSP 40917). Scale bars: 5 mm.