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Inachidae MacLeay 1838

  • 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

Family INACHIDAE MacLeay, 1838

Coryrhynchus algicola Stebbing, 1914 (Fig. 2L)

Coryrhynchus algicola Stebbing, 1914: 259 (type locality: off the coast of Brazil).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♂ MNHN-IU-2013-4066 (lot JL827), st. GR 27, 8 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Allied to Coryrhynchus riisei (see under that species). Rostrum short, broadly rounded. A pair of tubercles on surface of carapace between eyes. Edges of fingers (of female) crenulate, not denticulate. Ventral concave surface of first antennal article acute at distal end, broadly triangular.

HABITAT. — On rocky sublittoral with sessile epifauna. Collected 8 m, reported to 66 m.

DISTRIBUTION (Almeida & Coehlo 2008; Coelho et al. 2008). — Western Atlantic. Colombia, Brazil (from Maranhão to São Paulo). Lesser Antilles ICA (Guadeloupe).

REMARK

First record for Guadeloupe and for Lesser Antilles.

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 361-362, DOI: 10.5252/z2016n3a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4578244

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Inachidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
MacLeay
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Inachidae MacLeay, 1838 sec. Carmona-Suárez & Poupin, 2016

References

  • 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.
  • COELHO P. A., ALMEIDA A. O. & BEZERRA L. E. A. 2008. - Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the northern and northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 1956, 1 - 58, fig. 1.