Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860

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 : 32

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2F9F4FA6-3551-4A89-B882-BBD3A19B11ED

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8130163

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039AAE42-756C-FB1F-F38B-0D9FAF88FC3A

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scientific name

Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860
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Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860 View in CoL View at ENA

( Fig. 15B View FIGURE 15 )

Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860: 178 View in CoL [type-locality: Tortugas, Florida; type not found]; A. Milne-Edwards 1873 – 1880: 122; Rathbun 1897: 11; 1924: 19; 1925: 348; Rodríguez 1980: 227; Keith 1985: 261, fig. 5F; Lira et al. 2013: 54, tab. 1; Garcia & Capote 2015: 11, figs. 5i–j; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016: 378 View Cited Treatment , fig. 8K; Poupin 2018: 198.

Pisa latipes Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 19.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (Florida), Belize, Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Isla de Aves, Los Roques, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Colombia, and Venezuela ( Rathbun 1897; Carmona-Suárez & Poupin 2016; Poupin 2018; present study).

Material examined. Barbados, One Sandy Lane, St. James , subtidal, 13°10’04.70”N, 59°38’17.48”W, 1 Ô CW: 0.5 mm ( BLSZ 034 ) GoogleMaps . Drill Hall , St. Michael, nearshore rubble, 13°04’36.30”N, 59°36’26.63”W, 1 Ô CW: 8.1 mm ( BLSZ 168 ) GoogleMaps . Idem , 1 Ô, 1 ♀ CW: 1.0, 1.2 mm ( MZUSP 40917 View Materials ) .

Remarks. Thoe puella was found under the same rubble rock as Amphithrax aculeatus , Amphithrax verrucosus , Mithraculus coryphe , and Mithraculus forceps . This is the first record of Thoe puella for Barbados. Collected by hand in nearshore rubble habitat at low tide under rubble rock and caught in crab traps placed on rocky bottoms (~ 4 m deep) on the west and south coasts of Barbados. This species uses crustose coralline algae to camouflage itself under rubble rocks in nearshore rubble habitats. Ovigerous females were collected in June 2021 in nearshore rubble habitat.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Mithracidae

Genus

Thoe

Loc

Thoe puella Stimpson, 1860

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

Pisa latipes

Desbonne, I. & Schramm, A. 1867: 19
1867
Loc

Thoe puella

Poupin, J. 2018: 198
Carmona-Suarez, C. A. & Poupin, J. 2016: 378
Garcia, Y. L. D. & Capote, A. J. 2015: 11
Lira, C. & Fernandez, D. & Bolanos, J. & Hernandez, G. & Hernandez-Avila, I. 2013: 54
Keith, D. 1985: 261
Rodriguez, G. 1980: 227
Rathbun, M. J. 1925: 348
Rathbun, M. J. 1924: 19
Rathbun, M. J. 1897: 11
Milne-Edwards, A. 1880: 122
Stimpson, W. 1860: 178
1860
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