Pitho iherminieri (Desbonne, 1867)

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 : 29

Pitho iherminieri (Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867)

( Figs. 13A–C )

Othonia iherminieri Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 20 [type-locality: Guadeloupe; type in MNHN]; A. Milne-Edwards 1880: 116.

Othonia carolinensis Rathbun, 1892: 256 , pl. 35, figs. 1, 2.

Pitho lherminieri . — Rathbun 1897: 8; Hay & Shore 1918: 459, pl. 38, fig. 8; Rathbun 1925: 362, figs. 117b, pl. 128, figs. 1–2, pl. 129, figs. 1–2, pl. 252, fig. 2; 1936: 381; Monod 1939: 566; Williams 1965: 245, figs. 224, 233A; Coelho & Ramos 1972: 210; Powers 1977: 61; Rodríguez 1980: 275; Williams 1984: 311–312, figs. 246, 259a; Melo 1996: 271, unnumbered fig.; Ng et al. 2008: 106; Alves et al. 2012: 942, fig. 2B; Boos et al. 2012: 1028; Windsor & Felder 2014: 148, tab. 1, 152; Garcia & Capote 2015: 11, fig. 5e–h; Poupin 2018: 197, fig. 216; Mantelatto et al. 2020: 42 ; Tavares & Mendonça 2022: 45 ; Jarquín-González et al. 2022: 6, tab. 2.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (North and South Carolina), Jamaica, Gulf of Mexico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Martinique, Isla de Margarita, Isla de Cubagua, Los Roques, Tortuga, Venezuela, Brazil, Rocas Atoll, Fernando de Noronha, and Trindade island ( Rathbun 1897, 1925; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016; Poupin 2018; Mantelatto et al. 2020; Tavares & Mendonça 2022; present study).

Material examined. Barbados, Batts Rock , St. Michael, subtidal, 13°08’04.81”N, 59°38’12.30”W, 1 ♀ CW: 5.8 mm ( BLSZ 022 ) . Reeds Bay, St. James , subtidal, 13°13’09.10”N, 59°38’32.44”W, 1 Ô CW: 6.0 mm ( MZUSP 40889 ) . Schooner Bay, St. Peter , subtidal, 13°14’40.82”N, 59°38’41.97”W, 1 Ô CW: 9.0 mm ( MZUSP 40904 ) . Brandons , St. Michael, subtidal, 13°06’59.88”N, 59°37’44.52”W, 1 Ô CW: 7.2 mm ( BLSZ 259 ) .

Remarks. This is the first record of Pitho lherminieri for Barbados; caught in crab traps (~ 4m deep) placed on sandy and rocky bottoms on the west coast of Barbados. Pitho lherminieri can be identified by the narrow first movable segment of antenna ( Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016).

Figures

FIGURE 13. Superfamily Majoidea Samouelle, 1819, Pitho lherminieri (Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867), male, cw 7.2 mm (BLSZ 259): A, dorsal view of carapace; B, dorsal view of frontal margin, C, left third maxilliped; D, ventral view of frontal margin. Scale bars: A = 5 mm, B, D = 2 mm, C = 1 mm.