Pitho mirabilis (Herbst, 1794)

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 : 30-31

Pitho mirabilis (Herbst, 1794)

( Figs. 14A–E )

Cancer mirabilis Herbst, 1794: 152 [type-locality: unknown; types in Berlin Museum].

Othonia rotunda Rathbun, 1892: 258 , pl. 36, fig. 1.

Pitho mirabilis . — Nutting 1919: 75; Rathbun 1921: 88; 1925: 366; 1936: 381; Rodríguez 1980: 273; Keith 1985: 261, fig. 6B; Ng et al. 2008: 106; Windsor & Felder 2014: 148, tab. 1; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016: 376 , fig. 8I; Poupin 2018: 198.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (Florida), Bahamas, Puerto Rico, St. Martin, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Bonaire, Curaçao, and Venezuela ( Rathbun 1925; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016; Poupin 2018; present study).

Material examined. Barbados, Batts Rock , St. Michael, subtidal, 13°08’04.81”N, 59°38’12.30”W, 1 ♀ CW: 8.9 mm ( BLSZ 026 ) . One Sandy Lane, St. James , subtidal, 13°10’4.70”N, 59°38’17.48”W, 1 ♀ CW: 7.8 mm ( BLSZ 055 ) . Old Chefette, St. James , subtidal, 13°10’45.13”N, 59°38’25.62”W, 6 ♀, 1 ♀ (ovig.), 2 Ô CW: 7.2, 7.5, 8.5, 7.4, 7.3, 8.7, 8.1, 8.6, 6.8 mm ( BLSZ 189 ) . Reeds Bay, St. James , subtidal, 13°13’9.10” N, 59°38’32.44” W, 2 Ô, 1 ♀ CW: 10.4, 8.1, 9.4 mm ( BLSZ 187 ) . Idem , 1 Ô CW: 10.0 mm ( MZUSP 40900 ) . Schooner Bay, St. Peter , subtidal, 13°14’40.82”N, 59°38’41.97”W, 1 Ô, 1 ♀ CW: 10.0, 10.2 mm ( MZUSP 40893 ) . Brandons , St. Michael, subtidal, 13°06’59.88”N, 59°37’44.52”W, 1 Ô CW: 13.1 mm ( BLSZ 246 ) .

Remarks. This is the first record of Pitho mirabilis for Barbados. Caught in crab traps placed on rocky and sandy bottoms (~ 4 m deep) on the west coast of Barbados. Ovigerous female collected in October 2019. This species is very abundant in Barbados. Pitho mirabilis can be identified by anterolateral teeth decreasing in size from anterior to posterior; arm of cheliped with small tubercles on the upper margin ( Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016).

Genus Teleophrys Stimpson, 1860

Figures

FIGURE 14. Superfamily Majoidea Samouelle, 1819, Pitho mirabilis (Herbst, 1794), male, cw 13.1 mm (BLSZ 246):A, dorsal view of carapace; B, dorsal view of frontal margin; C, right third maxilliped; D, ventral view of frontal margin. Scale bars: A, 20 mm; B–D, 1 mm.