Paguroids (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae and Paguridae) of the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, off southeast Brazil, with new records, description of three new species and zoogeographical notes
Author
Lima, Daniel
Author
Tavares, Marcos
Author
Jr, Joel Braga De Mendonça
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-11-05
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Phimochirus leurocarpus
McLaughlin, 1981
(
Figs. 26
,
27
)
Phimochirus leurocarpus
McLaughlin, 1981b: 356
, figs. 4f, 9b, 10b, 11a–f, 12a–e;
Abele & Kim 1986: 34
, 382, fig. e, f;
McLaughlin
et al
. 2010: 34
.
Trindade specimens.
1 ovigerous female
sl
2.3 mm
(
MZUSP
36196),
Brazil
, off
Espírito Santo
, Trindade Island,
20°29’2”S
,
29°18’2”W
, R/V “Marion Dufresne”, cruise TAFF MD 55/
Brésil
1987, stn 36/
DC
61,
22.v.1987
,
Halimeda
rich sand,
63 m
.
Comparative material examined
.
Phimochirus leurocarpus
:
1 male
, sl
3.4 mm
(
USNM 1267511
), Curaçao,
12º04’59”N
,
68º53’57”W
, “CURASUB” DSR/V, Baldwin, C., Castilho, C. &
Bebber, B.
coll.,
9.xii.2014
, submersible,
168–268 m
;
holotype
female, sl
2.1 mm
(
USNM
180382
), Caribbean Sea,
Venezuela
, west of
Tortuga Island
,
10°57’N
,
65°52’W
, R/V “
Pillsbury
” coll., cruise 6806, stn 736,
22.vii.1968
, 69–
155 m
.
Phimochirus occlusus
(
Henderson, 1888
)
:
1 female
, sl
3.6 mm
(
USNM 265211
),
Caribbean Sea
,
British Virgin Islands
,
18°40’N
,
64°51’W
, R/V “
Caroline
”, Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition,
P. Bartsch
coll.,
3.iii.
1933
,
402 m.
1 male
(
USNM 184302
),
idem
, west of
Anegada Island
,
18°47’00”N
,
64°46’42W
, R/V “Pillsbury”, cruise 6907, stn 991,
23.vii.1969
, 187–
622 m
. 5 specimens
(
MZUSP 13859
),
São Paulo
,
Projeto
REVIZEE, stn
6661, 147 m
;
21 specimens
(
MZUSP 13881
),
Brazil
,
Rio de Janeiro
, Cabo Frio,
350–400 m
.
Type
locality.
West
of
Tortuga Island
,
10°57’N
,
65°52’W
,
Venezuela
, between 69 and
155 m
.
Distribution.
Bermuda
, Strait of Florida, Caribbean Sea of
Puerto Rico
, north coast of
Venezuela
(
McLaughlin, 1981b
),
Curaçao
and
Brazil
(off
Espírito Santo
, Trindade Island, this study), between 38 and
268 m
.
Remarks.
The specimen here reported from Trindade Island is assigned to
Phimochirus
, whose diagnostic characters (
McLaughlin 1981b
) are readilly reconized in the Brazilian material, namely, 11 pairs of biserial gills, crista dentata of the third maxilliped with one accessory tooth, propodal rasp with one row of corneous scales (
Fig. 26F
), presence of a well-developed preungual process (
Fig. 26F
), and females with first pleopod paired and modified as gonopods.
Phimochirus leurocarpus
superficially resembles
P. occlusus
(
Henderson, 1888
)
, from which it can be readly distinguished by the presence of a row of spines on the ventral margins of dactyls of the ambulatory legs (
Fig. 26
B– D), such spines are absent in
P. occlusus
. This is the first record of
P. leurocarpus
from the southwestern Atlantic (
Brazil
), hence extending its distribution southward to around
20°S
. The species was previously known only from the
type
material from Straits of Florida and
Venezuela
, and a few additional specimens from
Bermuda
and
Puerto Rico
. Here, we also recorded a specimen from
Curaçao
.