Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959

Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1), pp. 1-197 : 97

Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959

Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959a: 178 , French Guiana [27 m].

? Hepatus sp. A . – Durand 1959: 32, French Guiana [id. Guinot-Dumortier]. — Guinot-Dumortier 1959b: 512, French Guiana [Iles du Salut, 23–35 m; “ … deux espèces d’ Hepatus qui sont nouvelles pour la faune carcinologique américaine. Ces deux espèces étaient également présentes dans la collection de Suriname étudiée par Holthuis et leur description est actuellement sous presse… Afin de permettre l’identification d’ Hepatus sp. A , nous en publions le premier pléopode mâle ( Fig. 12 a-c)”], see Remark.

Hepatus gronovii – Coelho 1969: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá [also north of Pará]. — Fausto-Filho & Sampaio Neto 1976: 69, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos 1972: 181, Brazil Amapá. — Takeda 1983: 126, Suriname, French Guiana [30–50 m]. — Barreto et al. 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Melo 1996: 130, Brazil Amapá. — Melo et al. 1998: 446, Brazil Amapá. — Silva et al. 1998: 88, Brazil Amapá [75 m]; 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al. 2008: 9 , Brazil Amapá. — Corbari et al. 2015: 165–167, French Guiana [Expedition Iles du Salut 2014, 2 lots in MNHN, stns SD08, SD 14, 7 m, MNHN-IU-2013-18535, 2014-8331]. — Cintra et al. 2017: tabs 1–6, Brazil Amapá [27–47 m].

Distribution/Habitat

WA; marine; 7– 60 m.

Remark

The male pleopod figured by Guinot-Dumortier (1959a: fig. 12a–c) is overall similar to that of H. gronovii in Holthuis (1959a: fig. 43) but H. scaber Holthuis, 1959 cannot be totally excluded.

Figures

Fig. 12. Example of a species probably present in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, although still not sampled there. Distribution map of the freshwater shrimp Euryrhynchus amazoniensis Tiefenbacher, 1978, adapted from Pachelle & Tavares (2018: fig. 63a). sGuianas is indicated by a dotted rectangle, limited on land by countries boundaries.