CRABS (BRACHYURA) OF THE GULF OF MEXICO

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44 Lawrence W. Powers Florida; north coast of Cuba; north coast of Yucatan; Jamaica; St. Croix, Virgin Island to Grenada. Depth: 55 to 686 m (30 to 375 fm), more commonly at depths of greater than 183 m (100 fm). Habitat: mud, sand, shell, stone, and coral bottoms. Remarks: Rathbun (1925) listed ovigerous females from the northeast qviadrant of the Gulf in February and March. Arachnopsis Stimpson, 1871 Arachnopsis filipes Stimpson, 1871 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 2: 121) , Rathbun, 1925, p. 89, text figs. 26-27, pi. 32, figs. 1-2, pi. 219, figs. 4-5; "Williams, McClosfcey & Gray, 1968, p. 58. Range: off North Carolina; Florida Straits; Dry Tortugas; west coast of Florida; off Dominica; Barbados; Ceara to Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Depth: 27 to 238 m (15 to 130 fm). Habit: sand, shell, and coral bottoms. Remarks: Listed by Wass (1955) from northwest Florida and b)^ Chace (1956) from R/V Oregon collections in the Gulf of Mexico. Recorded from Brazil by Coelho (1971a, 1971b) and Coelho and Ramos (1972). Balrachonolus Stimpson, 1871 Balrachonotus fragosus Stimpson, 1871 (Bvdl. Mus. Comp. Zool. 2; 122) Ratlibun, 1925, p. 123, text-fig. 48, pi. 39, figs. 1-4; Rathbun, 1933, p. 13, fig. 10; Williams, 1965, p. 238, figs. 214, 223C. Range: North Carolina; south, west and northwest coasts of Florida; Dry Tortugas; north coast of Cuba; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Curasao, Netherlands Antilles; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Depth: shore to 137 m (to75fm). Habitat: sand, shell and coral bottoms; rarely on mud. Remarks: Listed from northwest Florida by Wass (1955), Hulings (1961), and Abele (1970). Williams (1965) reported ovigerous females from Dry Tortugas in June. Collodes Stimpson, 1860 Collodes armalus Rathbun, 1898 (Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 4: 252) Rathbun, 1925, p. 122, pi. 217, fig. 6. Range: off Havana, Cuba. Remarks; known only from the type specimen, collected in 1893. Collodes leplocheles Rathbun, 1894 (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 17: 53) Rathbun, 1925, p. llr, text-fig. 42, pi. 38, figs. 5-6; Pequegnat, 1970, p. 181; Felder, 1973a,p. 49,pl. 7,fig.3. Range: all quadrants of Gulf of Mexico except southeast, off coasts of Florida, Alabama, and Texas; off Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Crabs of the Gulf of Mexico 45 Depth: 124to384m (68to210fm). Habitat: gray mud, broken shell substrates. Remarks: Chace (1956) reported the first record of this species from off Texas, taken at 150 fm, and Leary (1967) also lists this crab from Texas. Pequegnat (1970) reported two ovigerous females, taken in August from 111 fm. Collodes trispinosus Stimpson, 1871 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 2: 120) Rathbun, 1925, p. 107, text-fig. 32, pi. 36, figs. 5-6; Williams, 1965, p. 239, figs. 215, 223D. Range: North Carolina to south Florida; Florida Straits and Keys; Dry Tortugas; west and northwest coasts of Florida. Depth: 7tol50m(4to82fm). Habitat: sand, broken shell, and gravel substrates. Remarks: Listed from northwest Florida by Wass (1955). Williams (1965) lists ovigerous females from North Carolina in October and from Florida in July. Euprognatha Stimpson, 1871 Euprognatha gracilipes A. Milne Edwards, 1878 (Crust. Reg. Mex., p. 184) Rathbun, 1925, p. 101, pi. 34, figs. 3-4; Rathbun, 1933, p. 11. Range: Florida Keys; north coast of Yucatan; off north coast of Cuba; Puerto Rico; St. Croix, Virgin Islands; Barbados; Amapa to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Depth: 72 to 368 m (39 to 201 fm). Habitat: sand, shell, coral, and rocky bottoms. Remarks: Rathbun (1925) comments on variation within this species and the possibility of two different subspecies within the described population. Listed from Brazil by Coelho (1971c) and Coelho and Ramos (1972). Euprognatha rastellifera acuta A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Crust. Reg. Mex., p. ' 348) Rathbun, 1925, p. 96, pi. 34, figs. 1-2; Rathbun, 1933, p. 11, fig. 8; Chace, 1940, p. 57. Range: Massachusetts; North and South Carolina; Florida Keys; north coast of Cuba; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts; Martinique. Depth: 102 to 708m (56 to 387 fm). Habitat: sand, coral, and shell substrates. Remarks: There is considerable geographical overlap among the three forms of this species, the typical form, E. r. acuta, and E. r. marthae. The subspecies acuta is distributed over the entire species range, although it is more common in the southern portion, whereas marthae is listed by Rathbun (1925) as restricted to north of southern Florida, along the Atlantic coast. Williams (1965) notes the need for clarification of these forms and their distributions. Inachoides H. Milne Edwards & Lucas, 1843 Inachoides forceps A. Milne Edwards, 1879 (Crust. Reg. Mex., p. 199) As/, laevis—Rathbun, 1925, p. 61 (part), text-fig. 17, not pi. 22, figs. 3-6; Rathbun, 1933,p. 8,fig. 4. As l. forceps—Garth, 1938, p. 101; Williams, McCloskey & Gi-ay, 1968, p. 60, fig. 14.
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