Cataleptodius floridanus ( Gibbes, 1850 )

Parasram, Nadeshinie, Santana, William & Vallès, Henri, 2023, Checklist of the shallow-water marine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Barbados, West Indies, Zootaxa 5314 (1), pp. 1-62 : 40-42

Cataleptodius floridanus ( Gibbes, 1850)

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Chlorodius floridanus Gibbes 1850: 175 [type-locality: Key West, Florida; type probably in USNM].

Chlorodius limosus Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 30.

Cataleptodius floridanus . — Rathbun 1930: 297, pl. 137–138; Guinot 1967: 704, figs. 19, 21, 28; Keith 1985: 263, fig. 7D; Abele & Kim 1986: 56; Melo 1996: 343, unnumbered fig.; Alves et al. 2012: 945; Boos et al. 2012: 1034; Garcia & Capote 2015: 16, fig. 7f–g; Mantelatto et al. 2020: 78 , fig. 21A; Jarquín-González et al. 2022: 6, tab. 2, 8, fig. 2.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (Florida), Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Gulf of Mexico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Martin, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curacao, Aruba, Central America, north-eastern coast of South America, and Brazil ( Rathbun 1897; Poupin 2018; Alves et al. 2012).

Material examined. Barbados, Jordans, St. James , nearshore rubble, 13°14’48.24”N, 59°38’40.90”W, 1 Ô CW: 15.3 mm ( BLSZ 139 ) . Coconut Court , Christ Church, nearshore rubble, 13°04’31.59”N, 59°36’13.78”W, 1 Ô CW: 23.5 mm ( BLSZ 141 ) . Drill Hall , St. Michael, nearshore rubble, 13°04’36.30”N, 59°36’26.63”W, 1 Ô CW: 17.9 mm ( BLSZ 136 ) . Idem , 1 Ô CW: 23.5 mm ( BLSZ 014 ) . Idem , 2 Ô, 1 ♀ CW: 13.5, 24.3, 13.4 mm ( BLSZ 144 ) . Idem , 1 Ô CW: 23.8 mm ( BLSZ 157 ) . Idem , 1 Ô CW: 20.1 mm ( MZUSP 40882 ) . Idem , 1 Ô CW: 21.7 mm ( BLSZ 273 ) .

Remarks. Cataleptodius floridanus is very abundant in Barbados and was collected by hand at low tide in nearshore rubble habitat, under rock rubble, on the west coast of Barbados. Rathbun (1921: 69) reported specimens of Leptodius floridanus (one juvenile, USNM 76108; one male, one juvenile female, USNM 76166; four females (three ovigerous), USNM 58006; two males, USNM 76107; three males, USNM 58007) collected in Barbados by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition in 1918. Additionally, Jones (1968a: 158) mentions Leptodius floridanus occurring in Barbados.

Genus Mecataleptodius Tavares & Mendonça, 2022

Figures

FIGURE 19. Superfamily Xanthoidea MacLeay,1838, dorsal habitus:A, Platyactaea setigera(H.Milne Edwards, 1834), female, cw 16.5 mm (BLSZ 216); B, Cataleptodius floridanus (Gibbes, 1850), male, cw 21.7 mm (BLSZ 273); C, Mecataleptodius parvulus (Fabricius, 1793), male, cw 17.3 mm (BLSZ 237); D, Williamstimpsonia denticulatus (White, 1848), male, cw 10.2 mm (BLSZ 254). Scale bars: 20 mm.