Lithodes ferox Filhol, 1885

Muñoz, Isabel & García-Isarch, Eva, 2013, New occurrences of lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from the coasts of Africa, with the description of a new species of Paralomis White, 1856, Zootaxa 3670 (1), pp. 45-54 : 46

Lithodes ferox Filhol, 1885

Lithodes tropicalis A. Milne Edwards, 1883: 13 (nomen nudum); Bouvier, 1895: 182, pl. XII, fig. 7; Bouvier, 1896: 24; A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1900: 266, pl. VII, XXVII, figs. 18–20; Dawson & Yaldwyn, 1985 (in list and in key).

Lithodes ferox Filhol, 1885a: 55 , 57, fig. 2; Filhol, 1885b: 128, pl. I, fig. 37; Perrier, 1886: 296, fig. 215; Bouvier, 1895: 182, 189, pl. XII, fig. 6; Bouvier, 1896: 24; A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1900: 264, pl. VI, figs. 3–6; Macpherson, 1988a: 64, pls. 15, 16, figs 4A, 29; Macpherson, 1991: 404 (list); Spivak, 1997: 74 (list); Ahyong, 2010: 15 (list); McLaughlin et al., 2010: 12 (list); Muñoz et al., 2012: 480 (list).

Lithodes murrayi .— Kensley, 1980: 22; Macpherson, 1983: 9, fig. 3; Dawson & Yaldwyn 1985 (in part, in list and in Key) (no Henderson, 1888).

Pseudolithodes pyriformis Birstein & Vinogradov, 1972: 358 , figs. 7, 8 (1–4).

Material examined. Guinea –Bissau: GUINEA –BISSAU0810, stn 4, 11 °47.8'N, 17°22.1'E, 374–385 m, 23.X.2008, 1 female, 37 × 37 mm (IEO-CD-GB08/244); 1 female 21x 20 mm (IEO-CD-GB08/244); 1 female 17 × 18 mm (IEO-CD-GB08/244); Mauritania: MAURIT1107, stn 17, 21 °11.5'N, 17°44.5'E, 818–861 m, 22.XI.2007, 1 male, 97 × 99 mm (IEO-CD-MR07/763); MAURIT0811, stn 90, 19 °44.9'N, 17°11.6'E, 750 m, 12.XII.2008, 1 female, 108 × 108 mm (IEO-CD-MR08/759).

Distribution. Lithodes ferox occurs off western Africa between 22°03' N and 28°16' S and off Saint Helena, Brazil (36°29.6' S, 53°46.7' W) on muddy bottoms between 160 and 1013 m in depth (Macpherson 1988a).