Pitho aculeata ( 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 : 28

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5314.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8189957

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pitho aculeata ( Gibbes, 1850 )
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Pitho aculeata ( Gibbes, 1850) View in CoL View at ENA

( Figs. 12A–E View FIGURE 12 )

Hyas aculeata Gibbes, 1850: 171 [type-locality: Florida].

Othonia aculeata .— Stimpson, 1859: 49; A. Milne-Edwards 1880: 115.

Pitho aculeata View in CoL — Rathbun 1897: 7; A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1923: 395; Rathbun 1924: 19; 1925: 357, pl. 127, 251, fig. 1; Rodríguez 1980: 274; Keith 1985: 261, fig. 6A; Ng et al. 2008: 106; Windsor & Felder 2014: 148, tab. 1, 156, 157, fig. 3M, 4N; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016: 376, fig. 8F; Poupin 2018: 197.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (Florida), Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Los Frailes, Los Roques, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba, and Venezuela ( Rathbun 1925; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016; Poupin 2018; present study).

Material examined. Barbados, Old Chefette, St. James , subtidal, 13°10’45.13”N, 59°38’25.62”W, 1 Ô CW: 9.4 mm ( BLSZ 186 ) GoogleMaps . Batts Rock , St. Michael, subtidal, 13°08’04.81”N, 59°38’12.30”W, 1 Ô CW: 7.0 mm ( MZUSP 40908 View Materials ) GoogleMaps . Reeds Bay, St. James , subtidal, 13°13’09.10”N, 59°38’32.44”W, 1 Ô CW: 9.7 mm ( BLSZ 049 ) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. This is the first record of Pitho aculeata for Barbados. Caught in crab traps (~ 4m deep) placed on sandy bottoms on the west coast of Barbados. Pitho aculeata can be identified by frontal teeth obtuse with rounded tips. Palm of cheliped swollen in adult males; tooth near the base of the dactylus. Merus and ischium of third maxilliped with granules (modified from Rathbun 1925).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Mithracidae

Genus

Pitho

Loc

Pitho aculeata ( Gibbes, 1850 )

Parasram, Nadeshinie, Santana, William & Vallès, Henri 2023
2023
Loc

Pitho aculeata

Rathbun, M. J. 1925: 357
Rathbun, M. J. 1924: 19
Milne-Edwards, A. & Bouvier, E. L. 1923: 395
Rathbun, M. J. 1897: 7
1897
Loc

Othonia aculeata

Milne-Edwards, A. 1880: 115
Stimpson, W. 1859: 49
1859
Loc

Hyas aculeata

Gibbes, L. R. 1850: 171
1850
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