Checklist of the Decapods (Crustacea) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil
Author
Alves, Maria De Lourdes
Author
Ramos-Porto, Marilena
Author
Viana, Girlene Fábia Segundo
text
Zootaxa
2008
1881
43
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.184217
7c3cd8cb-c7ba-40d9-94ff-5bdb9a5de987
1175-5326
184217
Family
Plagusiidae Dana, 1851
Percnon gibbesi
(H. Milne Edwards, 1853)
Diagnosis:
Melo, 1996
:457.
Previous records:
Pocock, 1890
:513 [as
Leiolophrus planissimus
(Herbst, 1804)];
Coelho, 1967
/69: 235 [as
Percnon planissimum
(Herbst, 1804)
];
Coelho and Ramos, 1972
:204 [as
Percnon planissimum
(Herbst, 1804)
];
Williams, 1984
:462;
Melo, 1996
:457, 1998:500;
Coelho et al., 2002
:445.
Examined material: JAN/92: Praia do Porto,
1 female
. MAR/92: Praia da Atalaia,
1 male
,
1 female
. JUN/ 92: Praia da Conceição,
2 males
,
1 female
. AUG/92: Praia da Caieira,
6 specimens
. DEC/92: Baía do Sueste,
4 specimens
. JAN/2000: Praia da Caieira:
2 females
.
Habitat: On and under rocks; in caves; on seaweed; always in the sublittoral.
Observations: Generally seen in groups; coloration brown with fluorescent blue spots.
Plagusia depressa
(Fabricius, 1775)
Diagnosis:
Melo, 1996
:458.
Previous records:
Pocock, 1890
:513;
Crosnier and Forest, 1966
:93;
Coelho and Ramos, 1972
:204; Fausto
Filho, 1974
:15;
Williams, 1984
:463;
Melo, 1996
: 458, 1998:500.
Examined material: JAN/92: Praia do Leão,
1 female
; Praia da Atalaia,
1 male
. JUN/92: Praia do Porto,
1 male
. AUG/92: Praia da Atalaia,
1 female
. DEC/92: Praia do Boldró,
4 specimens
. MAR/93: Praia do Leão,
6 specimens
. JAN/2000: Praia do Leão: several exuvias.
Habitat: On rocks; in rocky-slimy bottom.
Observations: very abundant species, observed in the intertidal and sublittoral zones, and in between the tide lines.