Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804)

Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1), pp. 1-197 : 71

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Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804) View in CoL

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Squilla View in CoL , Crangon View in CoL , Americana View in CoL , altera – Seba 1759 (1758–1761): 54, pl. 21 fig. 5, Suriname [“Haec pariter Surinamenfis”] = P. guttatus View in CoL in Holthuis (1959a), but see Remark.

Panulirus guttatus View in CoL – Holthuis 1959a: 124, Suriname [from Seba, 1759, with this remark “Apart from Seba’s record the species has not been reported from Suriname ”]. — Tavares 2002c: 316, Suriname.

Distribution/Habitat

WA; marine; 1– 25 m.

Remark

See Holthuis (1969) for Albertus Seba’s work and plates. The specimen illustrated by Seba (1759) was selected by Holthuis (1959a) as a lectotype for Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804) . Holthuis (1959a) indicated that “the figure [in Seba] is good and judging by the fact that the antennular plate shows only two spines and that the abdominal somites have straight uninterrupted grooves, the species has to be assigned to P. guttatus (Latreille) … ”. The re-examination of Seba’s figure for this work ( Fig. 13 View Fig ) shows that: 1) the number of spines on the antennular plate is difficult to appreciate; and 2) the abdomen has transverse bands [like in Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) ] and no trace of spots [like P. guttatus ] (see Fig. 14 View Fig ). It seems, therefore, that Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) , distributed from North Carolina to Brazil, cannot be excluded for Seba’s record. Panulirus argus is reported off Suriname by Takeda (1983) while, apart from Seba’s old record, P. guttatus has never been mentioned yet off Suriname and, more generally, in sGuianas.

References

Holthuis L. B. 1959 a. The Crustacea Decapoda of Suriname (Dutch Guiana). Zoologische Verhandelingen 44: 1 - 296. Available from https: // repository. naturalis. nl / pub / 317569 / ZV 1959044001. pdf [accessed Apr. 2024].

Holthuis L. B. 1969. Albertus Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri (1734 - 1765) ... and the Planches de Seba (1827 - 1831). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 43: 239 - 252. Available from https: // repository. naturalis. nl / pub / 318725 / ZM 1969043019. pdf [accessed Apr. 2024].

Seba A. 1759 [1758 - 1761]. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physicies historiam ... Tomus III. Janssonio-Waesbergios, Amsterdam [Amstelaedami]. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62760

Takeda M. 1983. Crustaceans. In: Takeda M. & Okutani T. (eds) Crustaceans and Mollusks Trawled off Suriname and French Guiana: 19 - 180. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo.

Tavares M. 2002 c. Lobsters: 293 - 325. Ibidem.

Figures

Fig. 13. The lobster Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804) (N° 5, in red), first Decapoda Latreille, 1802 reported from French Guiana region (Suriname). Adapted from Seba (1759: pl. 21). Perhaps not P. guttatus but Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804), instead (see checklist).

Fig. 14. Comparison of the color pattern in Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) (left) and P. guttatus (Latreille, 1804) (right). Specimens from Martinique, photos Y. Buske.