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Large Sponge Carrying Crab

Dromia erythropus (Edwards ex Catesby 1771)

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Dromia erythropus (Edwards, 1771)

Cancer erythropus Edwards, 1771:29.

Dromia erythropus.—Rathbun, 1937:31, fig. 11, pl. 6: figs. 1,2.—Chace, 1966:635 [part].—Forest, 1974:80, figs. 16, 2,3c, 4g, l–n, 5, pl. 1: fig. 3, pl. 3: fig. 3, pl. 5: fig. 5.

MATERIAL.—Other Collections: McDowell (1981), off English Bay, ~60 ft. (18 m): 1 male [30.4].—McDowell (1986), English Bay, in cave, lots of sponge in cave, night, scuba: 1 ovig. female [56.0].

SIZE.—Carapace length of male, 30.4 mm; of ovigerous female,56.0 mm.

HABITAT.—Sublittoral.

DISTRIBUTION.—Western Atlantic from Bermuda and Florida to Brazil, and Ascension and Saint Helena islands in the central Atlantic; littoral and sublittoral.
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Manning, Raymond B. and Chace, Fenner Albert, Jr. 1990. "Decapod and stomatopod crustaceans from Ascension Island, south Atlantic Ocean." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-91. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.503

Depth range

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Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m)

Reference

Poupin, J. (2018). Les Crustacés décapodes des Petites Antilles: Avec de nouvelles observations pour Saint-Martin, la Guadeloupe et la Martinique. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 264 p. (Patrimoines naturels ; 77).

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