Shallow-water stenopodidean and caridean shrimps from Abrolhos Archipelago, Brazil: new records and updated checklist
Author
Soledade, Guidomar O.
Author
Fonseca, Mytalle S.
Author
Almeida, Alexandre O.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3905
1
journal volume
10.11646/zootaxa.3905.1.3
5629b484-66c4-4c54-8996-af0744eac849
1175-5326
244578
E7DEECAF-96C5-48E1-8396-3B7063ECA841
Alpheopsis trigona
(
Rathbun, 1901
)
(
Fig. 3
A)
Material examined.
1 female
, Ilha de Santa Bárbara (
17°57’49”S
38°41’53”W
), coll. G.O. Soledade,
22.viii.2013
, intertidal, under rocks,
UESC
1549.
Distribution.
Western Atlantic—Bermuda to
Barbados
and West Indies to Yucatan Peninsula and
Brazil
(Fernando de Noronha Chain, Ceará, Paraíba, Bahia) (
Chace 1972
;
Coelho Filho 2006
; this study).
Previous records from Abrolhos.
None.
Remarks.
Alpheopsis trigona
is possibly a species complex (
Anker 2001
). The species was previously recorded from northeastern
Brazil
, however, only in a general list of decapod crustaceans obtained during the REVIZEE campaigns (
Coelho Filho 2006
), i.e. without morphological description or illustrations of diagnostic characters. The single female specimen from the Abrolhos was identified as
A. trigona
based on the tricarinate carapace and with nine sharp longitudinal or oblique crests and chelae distinctly triangular in cross section. The color pattern of the Brazilian specimen (
Fig. 3
A) corresponds well to that of a
Bermuda
specimen in
Sterrer (1986)
. The southern distribution limit of
A. trigona
is extended from Paraíba (
06°51’S
34°7’W
) to Ilha de Santa Bárbara (
17°57’49”S
38°41’53”W
).