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Chorinus heros

Creators

  • 1. Centro de Ecología. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Carretera Panamericana, km. 11. Altos de Pipe. 1204 (Venezuela) ccarmona @ ivic. gob. ve
  • 2. Institut de Recherche de l'École navale, IRENav, BCRM de Brest, École navale du Poulmic, CC 600 - Lanvéoc, F- 29240 Brest cedex 09 (France) joseph. poupin @ ecole-navale. fr Published on 30 September 2016

Description

Chorinus heros (Herbst, 1790)

(Fig. 2F)

Cancer heros Herbst, 1790 (1782-1804): vol. 1, pl. 18, fig. 102; vol. 2: 165, pl. 42, fig. 1 (type locality: “Der Ocean”).

Chorinus heros – H. Milne Edwards 1834 -1840: 315 (Antilles). — Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm 1867: 18 (Guadeloupe). — A. Milne-Edwards 1873-1880: 86 (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados). — Rathbun 1925: 305 (St Croix, Barbados). — Rodríguez 1980: 283 (Margarita). — Marcano & Bolaños 2001: 73 (Cubagua). — Hernández-Ávila et al. 2007: 44 (Cubagua).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-6783 (lot JL1004), st. GM 22, 1 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Carapace oval with two long horns, connected by a sieve-like channel of long hairs. Chelipeds of male very long and stout. Legs of first pair long, of second, third, and fourth pairs short.

HABITAT. — On shell, rocks, coral and sandy bottoms. Collected 1 m, reported 1- 50 m.

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Atlantic. Florida Keys, Bermuda, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti-Dominican Republic), Mexico (Quintana Roo, Isla Mujeres), Colombia, Brazil. Lesser Antilles VI (St Croix), ICA (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua).

REMARK

This species seems to be common in Lesser Antilles, already collected in several places before KARUBENTHOS 2012.

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 353-387 in Zoosystema 38 (3) on pages 356-358, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n3a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4578244

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Biodiversity

Family
Epialtidae
Genus
Chorinus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Herbst
Species
heros
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chorinus heros (Herbst, 1790) sec. Carmona-Suárez & Poupin, 2016

References

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  • RATHBUN M. J. 1925. - The spider crabs of America. Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum 129: i-xx, 1 - 613, figs 1 - 153, pls 1 - 283.
  • RODRIGUEZ G. 1980. - Crustaceos Decapodos de Venezuela. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas: 1 - 494, figs 1 - 119, pls 1 - 70.
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  • STEBBING T. R. R. 1914. - Stalk-eyed Crustacea Malacostraca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transaction of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 50: 253 - 307.