Thersandrus compressus
Authors/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
(Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867) (Fig. 8M)
Sisyphus compressus Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 20 (type locality: Guadeloupe). — A. Milne-Edwards 1873-1880: 124 (Guadeloupe).
Thersandrus compressus – Rathbun 1925: 343 (Guadeloupe).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1♀ juv. MNHN-IU-2013-5915 (lot JL522), st. GR 14, 27 m.
DIAGNOSIS. — Carapace depressed. Rostral horns small. Antennae and ambulatory legs fringed with long hair.
HABITAT. — A crab mimetic on algae (Avrainvillea sp.). Collected 27 m, reported previously 3-6 m (2-3 fathoms).
DISTRIBUTION (Rathbun, 1925). — Western Atlantic. Cuba. Lesser Antilles ICA (St Martin*, Guadeloupe, Martinique **).*St Martin from unpublished fieldwork (UF32558, 26.IV.2012 coll. & photo A. Anker/G. Paulay). ** Martinique from unpublished fieldwork (coll. R. Ferry, Y. Buske, det. J. Poupin XI.2015, BIOSPHERE (n°17) specimen at University of Fort de France).
REMARK
This crab is remarkably flat.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Desbonne
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Majidae
- Genus
- Thersandrus
- Species
- compressus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thersandrus compressus (Desbonne, 1867) sec. Carmona-Suárez & Poupin, 2016
References
- 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.