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CRABS (BRACHYURA) OF THE GULF OF MEXICO

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120 Lawrence W. Powers<br />

Range: off delta of Mississippi River.<br />

Depth: 64m(35fm).<br />

Habitat: sand-mud bottom.<br />

Remarks: This species is known only from a female type and a damaged male<br />

pai'atype.<br />

Dissodaclylus horradailei Rathbun. 1918 (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 97: 121)<br />

Rathbun, 1918, p. 121, text-fig. 68, pi. 27, figs. 5-8; Schmitt, McCain & Davidson,<br />

1973, p. 16.<br />

Range: off southeast and southwest coasts of Florida; Jamaica.<br />

Depth: 49 to 55 m (27 to 30 fm).<br />

Habitat: fine white sand.<br />

Dissodaclylus caZmani Rathbun, 1918 (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 97: 125)<br />

Rathbun, 1918, p. 125, text-figs. 72-73, pi. 28, figs. 5-6; Schmitt, McCain &<br />

Davidson, 1973, p. 16.<br />

Range: east coast of Florida; northwest coast of Cuba.<br />

Depth: 4 to 7 m (2 to 4 fm).<br />

Habitat: coral, sand, gravel, and rock bottoms; near shore.<br />

Dissodaclylus crinilichelis Moreira, 1901 (Arch. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro 11:<br />

37)<br />

As D. encopei—Rathbun, 1918, p. 119, text-fig. 67, pi. 27, figs. 1-4; Williams,<br />

McQoskey & Gray, 1968, p. 56, fig. 12.<br />

As D. crinilichelis—Rathbun, 1933, p. 83, fig. 76; Schmitt, McCain & Davidson,<br />

1973, p. 17.<br />

Range: off North Carolina; northwest coast of Florida; Jamaica; Puerto Rico;<br />

Belize; Caribbean coast of Colombia; Paraiba to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.<br />

Depth: shore to 52 m (to 28 fm).<br />

Habitat: fine white sand, coral, and broken shell bottoms; on Halodule (sea<br />

grass); with the echinoids Encope marginata, E. michelini (sand dollars) and<br />

Clypeaster subdepressus (sea biscuit).<br />

Remarks: L. H. Hyman (1955) commented on host relationships with<br />

echinoids (as D. encopei). Listed from Florida by Wass (1955), Abele (1970),<br />

and Menzel (1971); listed from Brazil by Coelho and Ramos (1972) and Rodrigues<br />

da Costa (1971).<br />

Dissodaclylus encopei Rathbun, 1901.<br />

A junior synonym of D. crinitichelislsAoTeiTa, 1901.<br />

Dissodaclylus juvenilis Bouvier, 1917 (Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Natur. Paris 23:<br />

397)<br />

Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1923, p. 349, text-figs. 11-12, pi. 9, figs. 3-4; Schmitt,<br />

McCain & Davidson, 1973, p. 17.<br />

Range: north of Yucatan, Mexico.<br />

Dissodaclylus mellilae (Rathbun, 1900) (Amer. Natural. 34: 590)<br />

Hay & Shore, 1918, p. 444, pi. 36, fig. 1; Rathbun, 1918, p. 117, text-fig. 66, pi. 28,

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