Batrachonotus fragosus Stimpson, 1871

Carmona-Suárez, Carlos & Poupin, Joseph, 2016, Majoidea crabs from Guadeloupe Island, with a documented list of species for the Lesser Antilles (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea), Zoosystema 38 (3), pp. 353-387 : 364-365

Batrachonotus fragosus Stimpson, 1871

Batrachonotus fragosus Stimpson, 1871: 122 (type locality: south of Tortugas). — Rathbun 1925: 123 ( St Thomas, Curaçao). — Monod 1939: 566 ( Guadeloupe).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. KARUBENTHOS 2012, 1 ov. ♀ MNHN-IU-2013-5920 (lot JL1287-1), st. GD 51, 15 m.

DIAGNOSIS. — Postorbital tooth small, not nearly reaching end of eye. A large tooth at middle of immovable finger of male. Antennal spines subparallel.

HABITAT. — On mud, sand, and broken-coral and shell bottom. Collected 15 m, reported 1- 247 m.

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Atlantic. Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to southern and western Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil. Lesser Antilles VI ( St Thomas), ICA ( Guadeloupe), IOV ( Curaçao).

REMARK

No photograph was available for this species but it is illustrated in Rathbun (1925) and Williams (1984). The later author comments on the validity of Batrachonotus brasiliensis Rathbun, 1894 , an affiliated species currently in synonymy with B. fragosus .