Moreiradromia antillensis ( Stimpson, 1859 )

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 : 12

Moreiradromia antillensis ( Stimpson, 1859)

( Figs. 4A–B )

Dromidia antillensis Stimpson, 1858: 225 [type-localities: St. Thomas, Florida; types not found]; Stimpson 1859: 71; Rathbun 1897: 39; A. Milne-Edwards 1880: 31; A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1902: 22; Rathbun 1920: 15; 1921: 66; 1937: 33, fig. 12, pl. 7, figs. 1–3; Chace 1956: 153; Manning & Chace 1990: 44, fig. 24d.

Evius ruber Moreira, 1912: 322 , figs. 1, 2.

Cryptodromiopsis antillensis .—McLay, 1993: 187; Melo, 1996: 68, unnumbered fig.

Moreiradromia antillensis .— Guinot & Tavares 2003: 82, figs. 14, 28H; Alves et al. 2012: 941; Poupin 2018: 172; Mantelatto et al. 2020: 14, fig. 3D.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (North Carolina, Florida Keys), Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Gulf of Mexico, St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, Isla de Margarita, Isla de Cubagua, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ascension, Saint Helena, Minerva Bank, and Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain (Vitória and Columbia Banks), and Trindade island ( Rathbun, 1897; Manning & Chace 1990; Rathbun 1937; Alves et al. 2012; Poupin 2018; Tavares & Mendonça 2022).

Material examined. Barbados, Coconut Court , Christ Church, nearshore rubble, 13°04’03.59”N, 59°36’13.78”W, 1 Ô CW: 5.1 mm ( BLSZ 176 ) .

Remarks. The single specimen of Moreiradromia antillensis was caught in nearshore rubble habitat at low tide on the south coast of Barbados; this specimen was found camouflaged under a sponge. Moreiradromia antillensis was collected under the same rubble rock as Eriphia gonagra ( Fabricius, 1781) , Amphithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790) , Paractaea nodosa ( Stimpson, 1860) , and Pachygrapsus transversus ( Gibbes, 1850) . Moreiradromia antillensis was reported from Barbados by Rathbun (1921: 66) as Dromidia antillensis on a single specimen collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition in 1918. The Barbados-Antigua Expedition also collected one female specimen of Dromia erythropus (Edwards in Catesby, 1771) (USNM 1479471) from Barbados. The present study did not find any specimens of Dromia erythropus .

Figures

FIGURE 4. Moreiradromia antillensis (Stimpson, 1859), male, cw 5.1 mm (BLSZ 176): A, dorsal habitus; B, frontal view of carapace. Scale bars: 5 mm.