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CRABS (BRACHYURA) OF THE GULF OF MEXICO

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36 Lawrence W. Powers<br />

Depth: 46 to 62 m (25 to 34 fm).<br />

Habitat: sand, broken shell, and gravel substrates.<br />

Speloeophorus A. Milne Edwards, 1865<br />

Speloeophorus elevalus Rathbun, 1898 (Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa<br />

4: 290)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 145, pi. 39, figs. 7-9.<br />

Range: Florida Keys; Jamaica; off Cape St. Roque and from Maranhao to<br />

Alagoas, Brazil.<br />

Depth: 1 to 83 m (1 to 45 fm).<br />

Habitat: broken shell substrate.<br />

Remarks: Listed from Brazil by Coelho (1971a) and Coelho and Ramos<br />

(1972).<br />

Speloeophorus nodosus (Bell, 1855) (Trans. Linn. Soc. London 21: 307)<br />

Hay & Shore, 1918, p. 425, pi. 32, fig. 5; Rathbun, 1933, p. 99, fig. 95; Rathbun,<br />

1937, p. 142, pi. 40, figs. 1-5; Williams, 1965, p. 148, figs. 123-124.<br />

Range: North Carolina; Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas; Jamaica; Puerto<br />

Rico; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Guadeloupe.<br />

Depth: 3 to 18 m (1.5 to 10 fm).<br />

Habitat: coral reefs and coral-sand bottoms.<br />

Remarks: Williams (1965) states that this species is rare in the northern<br />

part of its range and he cites a report hj Pearse and Williams (1951) of its<br />

occurrence on a reef off North Carolina. This crab readily feigns death when<br />

captured.<br />

Speloeophorus ponlifer (Stimpson, 1871) (Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 10:<br />

115)<br />

Hay & Shore, 1918, p. 425, pi. 32, fig. 5; Rathbun, 1933, p. 100; Rathbun, 1937,<br />

p. 144, pi. 39, figs. 1-3; Williams, 1965, p. 149, figs. 125-126.<br />

Range: off North Carolina; Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas; west coast of<br />

Florida; Cuba; Puerto Rico; Barbados.<br />

Depth: low tide mark to 229 m (to 125 fm).<br />

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

llhlias Stimpson, 1871<br />

Vhlias Umbalus Stimpson, 1871 (Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 10: 118)<br />

Rathbun, 1937, p. 150, pi. 36, figs. 3-3.<br />

Range: west of Key West, Florida; north coast of Cuba; Jamaica; Haiti; St.<br />

Thomas, Virgin Islands.<br />

Depth: 4 to 64 m (2 to 35 fm).<br />

Habitat: shell and grassy substrates.<br />

Subfamily LEUCOSIINAE Samouelle, 1819

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