Decapod crustaceans from the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil: an updated checklist of marine and estuarine species, with 23 new records
Author
Pachelle, Paulo P. G.
Author
Anker, Arthur
Author
Mendes, Cecili B.
Author
Bezerra, Luis E. A.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4131
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journal article
38707
10.11646/zootaxa.4131.1.1
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Automate evermanni
Rathbun, 1901
sensu
lato
(
Figure 5
)
Automate evermanni
Rathbun 1901: 112
, fig. 22.
Material examined
.
1 juvenile
specimen (in poor condition), LIMCE-UFC 782, Fortaleza, off Praia de Meireles, dredge, coll. unknown,
iv.2012
; 1 ov. female,
OUMNH
.ZC.2015-01-0003, Icapuí, Praia de Requenguela, Banco dos Cajuais, sea grass mud flat, in burrow, suction pump, coll. A. Anker & P.P.G. Pachelle,
03.vi.2012
[fcn 12-077];
1 female
? (missing most legs),
MZUSP
34000, same collection data [fcn 12-078].
Distribution
. Western Atlantic:
USA
(North Carolina) and Caribbean Sea to
Brazil
(Fernando de Noronha, Amapá, Pará, Ceará, Pernambuco, Alagoas,
Bahia
, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul); Eastern Atlantic:
Cape Verde
,
Senegal
to
Nigeria
(
Christoffersen 1998
; Coelho
et al.
2006;
Coelho Filho 2006
; Almeida
et al.
2012; present study).
Remarks
.
Automate evermanni
represents a transisthmian and amphi-Atlantic species complex that will require further studies (Anker, in prep.).