Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860

Carmona-Suárez, Carlos & Poupin, Joseph, 2016, Majoidea crabs from Guadeloupe Island, with a documented list of species for the Lesser Antilles (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea), Zoosystema 38 (3), pp. 353-387 : 378

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scientific name	Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860
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Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860: 178 (type locality: Tortugas, Florida).

Pisa latipes Desbonne , in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 19 ( Guadeloupe).

Thoe puella – A. Milne-Edwards 1873-1880: 122 ( Guadeloupe). — Rathbun 1924b: 19 ( Curaçao); 1925: 348 ( St Thomas, Curaçao); 1936:not seen ( Bonaire). — Rodríguez 1980:277 ( Curaçao, Bonaire). — García et al. 1998: table 1 ( Isla de Aves View in CoL ). — Marcano & Bolaños 2001: 76 ( Isla de Aves View in CoL ). — Lira 2004: table 1 ( Tortuga). — Lira et al. 2013: table 1 ( Isla de Aves, Los Roques View in CoL , Tortuga).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4256 (lot JL489-5), st. GM09, 1 m ; 2 ♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4271 (lot JL1419-3), st. GM 34, 1 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Sides of carapace perpendicular and nearly straight. Basal antennal joint not grooved. Margins of merus-joints of ambulatory legs thin.

HABITAT. — Hard substrate and rubble. Collected 1 m, reported to 27 m.

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Atlantic. South Florida , Belize, Colombia, Venezuela. Lesser Antilles VI (St Thomas), ICA ( St Martin *, Guadeloupe, Isla de Aves), IOV ( Tortuga, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao). * St Martin from unpublished fieldwork ( UF31853 , 9.IV.2012; UF32205, 16.IV.2012; coll. & photo A. Anker / G.Paulay) .