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CRABS (BRACHYURA) OF THE GULF OF MEXICO

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Crabs of the Gulf of Mexico 29<br />

Ethusa truncata A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1899 (Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat.,<br />

Paris 5: 384)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 85, pi. 28, figs. 1-2.<br />

Range: off west coast of Florida; off Mississippi Delta and Louisiana; northwest<br />

of Trinidad.<br />

Depth: 133to219m (73toll9fm).<br />

Ethusina Smith, 1884<br />

Ethusina abyssicola Smith, 1884 (Rept. U.S. Comm. Fish Fisher. 1882, p. 349<br />

(1884))<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 91, text-fig. 21, pi. 26, fig. 1, pi. 27, fig. 1; Pequegnat, 1970,<br />

p. 175, fig. 6-2.<br />

Range: Massachusetts to North Carolina; in deep waters of northwest, northeast,<br />

and southwest quadrants of Gulf of Mexico; off Cape Frio, Brazil; off west<br />

coast of Spain.<br />

Depth: 860 to4061 m (470 to2220 fm).<br />

Habitat: very soft bottoms, muds and oozes.<br />

Remarks: Pequegnat (1970) presents e\'idence for two modes of bathymetric<br />

distribution, one at 860 to 1399 m (470 to 765 fm) with specimens resembling<br />

typical E. abyssicola, and a deeper mode at 2551 to 4061 m (1395 to 2220 fm)<br />

with specimens that approach E. faxonii in size and shape of exorbital teeth.<br />

Further studies may reveal two distinct species. Pequegnat (1970) also reports<br />

that an ovigerous female with a few advanced embryos was collected at 765 fm<br />

in mid-November.<br />

Superfamily CALAPPOIDEA deHaan, 1833<br />

Family CALAPPIDAE de Haan, 1833<br />

Subfamily CALAPPINAE de Haan, 1833<br />

Acanthocarpus Stimpson, 1871<br />

Acanthocarpus alexandri Stimpson, 1871 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 2: 153)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 221, pi. 69, figs. 1-2; Chace, 1940, p. 26; Williams, 1965, p. 156,<br />

fig. 137; Pequegnat, 1970, p. 177, fig. 6-3.<br />

Range: Massachusetts; North Carolina to south Florida; Florida Keys and<br />

Dry Tortugas; west and northwest Florida; Mississippi; Texas; east coast of<br />

Mexico; north coast of Cuba; Puerto Rico to the Grenadines; off Brazil.<br />

Depth: 68 to 476 m (37 to 260 fm).<br />

Habitat; primarily soft bottoms, fine sand, mud and ooze.<br />

Remarks: Chase (1940) and Pequegnat (1970) note that the carapace of this<br />

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species is broader than long, contrary to the description of Rathbun (1937).<br />

Chace (1956) listed this species from the Gulf of Mexico collections of the R/V

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