Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896

Parasram, Nadeshinie, Santana, William & Vallès, Henri, 2021, Updated checklist of semi-terrestrial and estuarine crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of Barbados, West Indies, Zootaxa 5052 (4), pp. 451-485 : 462-464

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.4.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AAD15F62-C928-4BE4-B717-3182E6FB986E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5577198
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0380B94C-FFC7-6668-9FD9-F99EFDDAEFCD
treatment provided by	Plazi (2021-10-19 06:39:03, last updated 2024-11-26 23:36:48)
scientific name	Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896
status

Treatment

Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 View in CoL

Fig. 6 A, B, C, D View FIGURE 6

Portunus diacantha Latreille, 1825: 190 View in CoL [name suppressed, Opinion 712].

Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896: 352 View in CoL , pl. 12; pl. 24, fig. 1; pl. 25, fig. 1; pl. 26, fig. 1; pl. 27, fig. 1 [type locality restricted to “east coast of United States ” according to Williams, 1965]; 1930: 99, figs. 15 a, 16 c, 17 c, 18 a, 19, pl. 47. Chase & Hobbs 1969: 133, figs. 36 & 37 f. Williams 1974: 778, figs. 1, 16, 17, 19 d, 21, 23 b–c, 26; 1984: 376; figs. 293 g & 299 a–d. Melo 1996: 318, unnumbered figure. Almerigi et al. 1999: 30. Coelho et al. 2008: 29 View Cited Treatment . Ng et al. 2008: 151. García & Capote 2015: 12. Poupin 2018: 208. Mantelatto et al. 2020: 64 View Cited Treatment , fig. 18H.

Callinectes sapidus acutidens Rathbun, 1896: 345 View in CoL , pls. 13, 24, fig. 2 [type: ♂, MCZ 4696 About MCZ , Santa Cruz ( Estado de Bahia ) Brazil, Thayer Expedition].

Material examined. Barbados, Long Pond , St. Andrew, coastal wetland, 13̊ 15’40.6” N–59̊ 33’22.94” W, 1 ♀ CW: 140 mm ( BLSZ 005 ) . Idem , 1 ♂ (Juv) CW: 60.9 mm ( BLSZ 092 ) . Idem , 3 ♀ CW: 21.7; 23.4; 25.7 mm ( BLSZ 094 ) . 1 ♂ CW: 11.5 mm ( BLSZ 099 ; MZUSP 40872 View Materials ; 40869; 40867; 40875. Idem , 1 ♂ CW: 8.5 mm ( BLSZ 190 ; MZUSP 40875 View Materials ; 40874). Barbados, Cobblers Cove, St. Peter, coastal wetland, 13.14322388 N – 59.38363012 W, 1 ♂ CW: 122.5 mm ( BLSZ 109 ). GoogleMaps

Distribution. Callinectes sapidus is found in the Western and Eastern Atlantic. Western Atlantic: Canada, USA (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Potomac River, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas), Bermuda, Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados (present study), Tobago, Trinidad, Nicaragua, Curaçao, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. In the Eastern Atlantic: Denmark, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine, France, Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Malta, Egypt ( Rathbun 1930; Chace & Hobbs 1969; Williams 1974; García & Capote 2015; Johnson 2015; Poupin 2018).

Distribution in Barbados. Long Pond and Cobblers Cove [ Table 1 View TABLE 1 (Site #s: 3 & 23)].

Habitat in Barbados. Coastal wetlands in brackish water rivers and streams with sandy and muddy bottoms, from 0.3–2 m deep; salinity ranges from ~ 0–25 ppt ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 : A, B).

Ecological notes. Adult specimens of Callinectes sapidus were only caught with baited traps ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ) placed approximately 2 m deep at the Long Pond wetland. Juveniles were observed foraging along the mouth of the wetland and burrowing into the sandy substrate when approached. Specimens of C. sapidus were collected along with Callinectes bocourti and Callinectes danae in the Long Pond wetland, which is the only location in Barbados where all three species were caught together. C. sapidus was particularly evasive, possibly because it is heavily targeted by local fishermen who use them as bait to fish for jacks, namely Carnax hippos ( Linnaeus, 1766) . As a result, C. sapidus was more difficult to collect compared to the other Callinectes spp.

Remarks. This species is of local interest for subsistence fishing. Callinectes sapidus differs from other species of this genus by the shape of the frontal margin, which has two broad triangular teeth, instead of the four seen in the other species found in Barbados. Tips of the male first gonopod do not overlap and are positioned between the fourth and fifth thoracic sternites ( Rathbun 1930; Williams 1974). Callinectes sapidus is the most valuable Portunid species for commercial and recreational fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and South America. Commercial landing statistics reported for C. sapidus in Area 31 (Western Central Atlantic) are 750,449 tons between 1984 and 1998 [(~ 50,029 ton /annum) ( Williams, 1974; Williams 1984; Tavares 2002; Sforza et al. 2010; Garcia & Capote 2015)].

References

Almerigi, S., Mahon, R., Alleyne, Y., Atherley, K., Cumberbatch, J. & Mahon, S. (1999) Barbados Coastal Conservation Programme (Phase 1), Demonstration Projects. In: Alleyne, Y. & Atherley, K. (Eds.), Government of Barbados, Bridgetown, pp. 1 - 64.

Chace, F. A. Jr. & Hobbs, H. H. (1969) The freshwater and terrestrial decapod crustaceans of the West Indies with special reference to Dominica. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 292, 1 - 244. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.292.1

Coelho, P. A., Almeida, A. O. & Bezerra, L. E. A. (2008) Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, 58, 1 - 58. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1956.1.1

Garcia, Y. L. D. & Capote, A. J. (2015) List of marine crabs (Decapoda: Anomura and Brachyura) of shallow littoral of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Check List, 11 (2), 1 - 22. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 11.2.1601

Johnson, D. S. (2015) The Savory Swimmer Swims North: A Northern Range Extension of the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus? Journal of Crustacean Biology, 35 (1), 105 - 110. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 1937240 x- 00002293

Latreille, P. A. (1825 - 1828) Encyclopedie Methodique. Historie Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Historie naturelle des crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Vol. 10. Chez Panckoucke, Imprimeur-Libraire, hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, Paris, 832 pp.

Linnaeus, C. (1766) Systema naturae: per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae: Impensis direct, Laurentii Salvii, 532 pp.

Mantelatto, F. L., Tamburus, A. F., Magalhaes, T., Buranelli, R. C., Terossi, M., Negri, M., Castilho, A. L., Costa, R. C. & Zara, F. J. (2020) Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the Sao Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: III. Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802. Zootaxa, 4872 (1), 1 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4872.1.1

Melo, G. A. S. (1996) Manual de identificacao dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do Litoral Brasileiro. Editora, Pleiade, Sao Paulo, 604 pp.

Ng, N. K., Moreno, P. A. R., Naruse, T., Guinot, D. & Mollaret, N. (2008) Annotated type catalogue of Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Part II. Gecarcinidae and Grapsidae (Thoracotremata, Grapsoidea), with an Appendix of pre- 1900 collectors. Zoosystema, 41 (1), 91 - 130. https: // doi. org / 10.5252 / zoosystema 2019 v 41 a 7

Poupin, J. (2018) Les Crustaces decapodes des Petites Antilles: Avec de nouvelles observations pour Saint-Martin, la Guadeloupe et la Martinique. Publications scientifiques du Museum National d'histoire Naturelle, Paris, 264 pp.

Rathbun, M. J. (1896) The genus Callinectes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 18, 349 - 375. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.97. i

Rathbun, M. J. (1930) The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae, and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 152, 1 - 609. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.152. i

Sforza, R., Nalesso, R. C. & Joyeux, J. C. (2010) Distribution and Population Structure of Callinectes danae (Decapoda: Portunidae) in a Tropical Brazilian Estuary. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 30 (4), 597 - 606. https: // doi. org / 10.1651 / 09 - 3223.1

Tavares, M. D. S. (2002) True Crabs. In: Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.), The living marine resoruces of the West Central Atlantic. Volume 1: Introduction, molluscs, crustaceans, hagfish, sharks, batoid fishes, and chimaeras. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication. Vol. N. 5. FAO, Rome, pp. 327 - 352.

Williams, A. B. (1965) Marine decapod crustaceans of the Carolinas. Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, 65 (1), 1 - 298.

Williams, A. B. (1974) The swimming crabs of the genus Callinectes (Decapoda: Portunidae). Fishery Bulletin, 72 (3), 685 - 798.

Williams, A. B. (1984) Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. D. C., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 550 pp.

Figures

FIGURE 2A. Semi-terrestrial and estuarine habitats of Barbados. A, B, Coastal Wetlands; C, D, Rocky Shores (Photos: N. Parasram).

FIGURE 3. Sampling methodologies used for specimen collection. A, Baited onion bag trap (0.95 m x 0.55 m; mesh size: 0.5 mm); B, Large crab trap (B:1.0 x 0.40 m; mesh size: 50 x 40 mm); C, Small cage crab trap (C: 0.5 x 0.2 m, mesh size: 30 x 15 mm); D, Hand nets (diameter: 60 mm; mesh size: 0.1 mm); E, Fruit bait outside of crab burrow.

FIGURE 6. Habitus of Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (BLSZ 109, BLSZ 134). A, B, dorsal view of male and juvenile female; C, D, ventral view of male and juvenile female. Scale bars: 20 mm.