Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: IV. Infraorder Anomura: Superfamilies Chirostyloidea, Galatheoidea, Hippoidea and Paguroidea
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Mantelatto, Fernando L.
Author
Miranda, Ivana
Author
Vera-Silva, Ana L.
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Negri, Mariana
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Buranelli, Raquel C.
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Terossi, Mariana
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Magalhães, Tatiana
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Costa, Rogério C.
Author
Zara, Fernando J.
Author
Castilho, Antonio L.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-29
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journal article
6993
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Polyonyx gibbesi
Haig, 1956
Polyonyx gibbesi
Haig, 1956: 28–30
.
Material examined.
Brazil
,
São Paulo
:
1 ♀
,
CCDB 2391
,
Ubatuba
,
Enseada
de Ubatuba
, colls.
F. Mantelatto
et al
.,
26.ix.2002
.
Distribution.
Western Atlantic—
USA
(
Massachusetts
,
Rhode Island
,
North Carolina
,
South Carolina
, Florida,
Texas
),
Panama
,
Cuba
,
Puerto Rico
,
Trinidad and Tobago
,
Venezuela
,
Brazil
(
Ceará
,
Pernambuco
,
Bahia
,
Espírito Santo
,
Rio de Janeiro
,
São Paulo
,
Paraná
, Santa Catarina,
Rio Grande do Sul
),
Uruguay
,
Argentina
(
Haig 1956
; Gore 1968;
Craig 1974
;
Melo 1999
;
Rodríguez
et al.
2005
;
Coelho
et al.
2007
;
Belleggia
et al.
2010
;
Ferreira & Melo 2016
;
Spivak
et al
. 2019
).
Remarks.
Polyonyx gibbesi
is a common commensal of the tubicolous polychaete,
Chaetopterus variopedatus
(Renier, 1804)
(
Haig 1956
; Gore 1968;
Craig 1974
;
Williams 1984
), living in pairs, and rarely found outside their tubes. The species occurs from the intertidal zone down to depths of
50 m
, on rocks, sand and mud of the sublittoral region (
Veloso & Melo 1993
).