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CRABS (BRACHYURA) OF THE GULF OF MEXICO

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26 Lawrence W. Powers<br />

Superfamily DORIPPOIDEA deHaan, 1841<br />

Family DORIPPIDAE de Hann, 1841<br />

Clythrocerus A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1899<br />

Clythrocerus nitidus (A. Milne Edwards, 1880) (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 8: 24)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 109, text-figs. 26,27, pi. 33, figs. 1-2.<br />

Range: South Carolina; southeast and northwest Florida; Florida Keys;<br />

Grenada.<br />

Depth: 12 to 479 m (6.5 to 262 fm).<br />

Habitat: rock, coral, sand, shell, and gravel bottoms.<br />

Remarks: Listed by Wass (1955) at 25 fm off Cape San Bias, Florida. Rathbun<br />

(1937) reported ovigerous females from Florida in February, March, and late<br />

June.<br />

Clythrocerus slirnpsoni Rathbun, 1937 (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 166: 121)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, pi. 121, text-fig. 32, pi. 34, figs. 5, 6.<br />

Range: west coast of Florida.<br />

Depth: 183 m (100 fm).<br />

Remarks: Known only from the single female type specimen.<br />

Corycodus A. Milne Edwards, 1880<br />

Corycodus hullatus A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 8: 23)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 103, pi. 29, figs. 1-4, pi. 30, fig. 1, pi. 31, fig. 1.<br />

Range: off north coast of Cuba.<br />

Depth: 320 to457m (175 to250fm).<br />

Cyclodorippe A. Milne Edwards, 1880<br />

Cyclodorippe anlennaria A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 8:<br />

25)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 104, text-fig. 24, pi. 32, figs. 1, 2; Pequegnat, 1970, p. 177.<br />

Range: west coast of Cuba; north coast of Yucatan (Gulf); north coast of Cuba;<br />

Puerto Rico; Lesser Antilles, from Dominica to Grenada.<br />

Depth: 91 to 653 m (50 to 357 fm).<br />

Habitat: primarily hard bottoms (coral, sand, and shell).<br />

Cyclodorippe bouvieri Rathbun, 1934 (Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 91: 1)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 106, pi. 32, figs. 3-4, pi. 81, figs. 1-2.<br />

Range: north coast of Cuba; northeast of Puerto Rico.<br />

Depth: 274 to 549 m (150 to 300 fm).<br />

Remarks: Rathbun (1937) lists an ovigerous female from Puerto Rico, taken<br />

in March at 150 fm.

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