Have a personal or library account? Click to login
First record of the rare crab Asthenognathus atlanticus Monod, 1933 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) in the North Sea Cover

First record of the rare crab Asthenognathus atlanticus Monod, 1933 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) in the North Sea

Open Access
|Sep 2021

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Map of the North Sea with areas of high ecological value on the Dutch Continental Shelf, proposed nature reserves (green), sampling locations in February and March 2019 (black dots), including the sampling location where Asthenognatus atlanticus was collected (green dot) on Brown Bank. Coordinate system WGS84 in a UTM 31N projection
Map of the North Sea with areas of high ecological value on the Dutch Continental Shelf, proposed nature reserves (green), sampling locations in February and March 2019 (black dots), including the sampling location where Asthenognatus atlanticus was collected (green dot) on Brown Bank. Coordinate system WGS84 in a UTM 31N projection

Figure 2

Asthenognathus atlanticus from Brown Bank; dorsal view. Scale bar = 10 mm. RMNH.CRUS.D.57968
Asthenognathus atlanticus from Brown Bank; dorsal view. Scale bar = 10 mm. RMNH.CRUS.D.57968

Figure 3

Asthenognathus atlanticus; ventral view with chelipedes (Brown Bank). Scale bar = 10 mm. RMNH.CRUS.D.57968
Asthenognathus atlanticus; ventral view with chelipedes (Brown Bank). Scale bar = 10 mm. RMNH.CRUS.D.57968

Figure 4

Asthenognathus atlanticus, third maxilliped, with a boundary between merus and ischium arrowed (Brown Bank). Scale bar = 1mm. RMNH.CRUS.D.57968
Asthenognathus atlanticus, third maxilliped, with a boundary between merus and ischium arrowed (Brown Bank). Scale bar = 1mm. RMNH.CRUS.D.57968

Chronological distribution data and ecological data from the literature and our sampling

regionperioddepth (m)sedimentnumberassociatessource
Gold Coast (= Ghana) to Roscoff, including W Mediterranean Sea1932–19770–200mud, muddy sand, sandy mud1–40Cerianthus membranaceus (Gmelin, 1791), Sipunculus nudus Linnaeus, 1766, Oestergrenia digitata (Montagu, 1815)Glémarec & Hily (1979), partly cited from earlier sources
Bay of the Seine2008–201110–25mud, muddy sand, sand30Terebellides stroemi Sars, 1835, Lanice conchilega Pallas, 1766, Upogebia deltaura (Leach, 1816)Jourde et al. (2012)
Dieppe–Le Tréport2015–201812–25including coarse sand Chaetopterus variopedatus (Renier, 1804), Cerianthus lloydii Gosse, 1859Pezy & Dauvin (2016)
southern North Sea201932sand with shell grit1Callianassa subterranea and/or Gilvossius tyrrhenus, Echinocardium cordatumthis paper
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oandhs-2021-0030 | Journal eISSN: 1897-3191 | Journal ISSN: 1730-413X
Language: English
Page range: 352 - 358
Submitted on: Dec 7, 2020
Accepted on: Mar 26, 2021
Published on: Sep 2, 2021
Published by: University of Gdańsk
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 Marco Faasse, Hendrik Gheerardyn, Rob Witbaard, Joël Cuperus, published by University of Gdańsk
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.