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CRABS (BRACHYURA) OF THE GULF OF MEXICO

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Tutankhamen Rathbun, 1925<br />

Crabs of the Gulf of Mexico 71<br />

Tutankhamen cristatipes (A. Milne Edwards, 1880) (Crust. Reg. Mex., p. 352)<br />

Rathbun, 1925, p. 530, pi. 277, figs. 3-5.<br />

Range: Pourtales Plateau, Florida Straits; St. Vincent, Windward Islands.<br />

Depth: 227 to366 m( 124 to200 fm).<br />

SECTION CANCRIDEA Latreille, 1803<br />

Superfamily CANCROIDEA Latreille, 1803<br />

Family ATELECYCLIDAE Ortmann, 1893<br />

Subfamily ATELECYCLINAE Ortmann, 1893<br />

Trachycarcinus Faxon, 1893<br />

Trachycarcinus spinulifer Rathbun, 1898.<br />

Determined by Pequegnat (1970) to be a synonym of Trichopeltarion nobile<br />

A. Milne Edwards, to which all previous records are referred.<br />

Trichopeltarion A. Milne Edwards, 1880<br />

Trichopeltarion nobile A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 8: 20)<br />

As Trachycarcinus spinulifer—Rathbun, 1930, p. 166, text-figs. 26-27, pis. 70-71.<br />

As Trichopeltarion no6i7e—Rathbun, 1930, p. 168, pi. 73; Pequegnat, 1970, p. 184,<br />

figs. 6-4, 6-5.<br />

Range: off northwest Florida and Mississippi; east coast of Mexico; Bay of<br />

Campeche; off St. Lucia.<br />

Depth: 274to752m (150to411fm).<br />

Habitat: mud bottoms.<br />

Remarks: Pequegnat (1970) synonymized the two species on the basis of<br />

fresh material collected by the R/V Alaminos in the Gulf of Mexico. The largest<br />

of 9 females collected was ovigerous, from 195 fm depth, in September. Listed by<br />

Chace (1956), as T. spinulifer, from off Mississippi.<br />

Family CANCRIDAE Latreille, 1803.<br />

Subfamily CANCRINAE Latreille, 1803<br />

Cancer Linnaeus, 1758<br />

Cancer borealis Stimpson, 1859 (Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 7: 50)<br />

Common Names: Jonah Crab; Northern Crab<br />

Hay & Shore, 1918, p. 434, pi. 35, fig. 2; Ratlibun, 1930, p. 182, text-figs. 30-31;<br />

Chace, 1940, p. 38; Williams, 1965, p. 175, fig. 156.<br />

Range: Nova Scotia to east coast of Florida; Bermuda; south coast of Florida;<br />

south of Dry Tortugas, in Florida Straits.

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