MAJINAE Samouelle, 1819

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n3a5
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scientific name	MAJINAE Samouelle, 1819
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Subfamily MAJINAE Samouelle, 1819 View in CoL

Temnonotus granulosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 ( Fig. 8L View FIG )

Temnonotus granulosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (1873-1880): 83 (type locality: Barbados); 1880: 2 ( Barbados).— A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1923: 392 ( Barbados). — Rathbun 1925: 341 ( Barbados) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♀ MNHN-IU-2013-4422, no station number, coll. D. Lamy, north of Guadeloupe, trap 300 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Posterior region of carapace with characteristic horseshoe-shaped depression.

HABITAT. — Probably rock and rubble. Collected 300 m, reported 183- 478 m.

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Atlantic. Florida Straits, Cuba. Lesser Antilles ICA ( Guadeloupe, Barbados).

REMARK

First record for Guadeloupe. This is a deep species collected by trap at 300 m just before KARUBENTHOS 2012 and added to this campaign by D. Lamy. It can be easily recognized by the horseshoe design on posterior carapace.