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Piluninus L,each, 1815<br />
Crabs of the Gulf of Mexico 105<br />
Piluinnus caribaeus Desbonne & Schramm, 1867 (Crust. Guadeloupe, p. 32)<br />
Rathbun, 1930, p. 491, pi. 200, figs. 3-4; Rathbun, 1933, p. 71.<br />
Range: Bahamas; Florida Keys; north coast of Cuba; Jamaica; Puerto Rico;<br />
Vieques and Culebra; Virgin Islands; Guadeloupe; Curagao; Bahia to Sao Paulo,<br />
Brazil.<br />
Depth: low tide mark to 29 m (to 16 fm).<br />
Habitat: mud, sand, shell, grassy, and coral bottoms.<br />
Piluinnus dasypodus Kingsley, 1879 (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, 20: 155)<br />
Rathbun, 1930, p. 493, pi. 200, figs. 5-6; Rathbun, 1933, p. 72; Williams, 1965,<br />
p. 178, figs. 157C, 159; Felder, 1973a, p. 61, pi. 9, fig. 7.<br />
Range: North and South Carolina; Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas; south to<br />
northwest Florida; Mississippi; Texas; north and south coasts of Cuba; Jamaica;<br />
Puerto Rico; Culebra; Virgin Islands; Martinique; Curasao; Pernambuco to<br />
Santa Catarina, Brazil.<br />
Depth: 1 to29m (0.5 to 16 fm).<br />
Habitat: sand, shell, rocky, and coral bottoms; from mangrove roots; with<br />
fouling materials on pilings, buoys and jetties; off sponges.<br />
Remarks: Sandifer (1974) studied larval development. Williams (1965) reviewed<br />
records of ovigerous females. Ecological notes were provided by Lunz<br />
(1937), Pearse (1934), and Pearse and Williams (1951). Listed from Florida<br />
(Wass, 1955; Abele, 1970; Menzel, 1971; Lyons et ah, 1971), Mississippi<br />
(Christmas and Langley, 1973) and from Texas (Leary, 1967).<br />
Pilumnus diomedeae Rathbun, 1894 (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 17: 85)<br />
Rathbun, 1930, p. 501, pi. 202, figs. 2-3.<br />
Range: north coast of Cuba; Caribbean coast of Yucatan.<br />
Depth: 238 to 337 m (130 to 184 fm).<br />
Habitat: coral and sand bottoms.<br />
Pilumnus floridanus Stimpson, 1871 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 2: 141)<br />
Rathbun, 1930, p. 507, pi. 205, figs. 3-4; Rathbun, 1933, p. 72; Williams, 1965,<br />
p. 179, figs. 157D, 160; Felder, 1973a, p. 61, pi. 9, fig. 8; Pequegnat & Ray, 1974,<br />
p. 238, figs. 23-24.<br />
Range: North Carolina; Bahamas; Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas; west and<br />
northwest coasts of Florida; off Texas; north of Yucatan; Honduras; Jamaica;<br />
Puerto Rico; Culebra; Virgin Islands; Venezuela.<br />
Depth: low tide mark to 146 m (to 80 fm).<br />
Habitat: sand, shell, gravel, rock, and coral substrates; mud and grassy bottoms;<br />
inside sponges.<br />
Remarks: Listed from the Gulf by Chace (1956) and from Florida by Wass<br />
(1955) and Lyons et al. (1971). Williams (1965) reported ovigerous females<br />
from Florida in March to August and from North Carolina in February. Pearse<br />
and Williams (1951) collected this crab from sponges in North Carolina waters.