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
Spongicolidae Schram, 1986
Microprosthema semilaeve
(von Martens, 1872)
Diagnosis:
Holthuis, 1946
:54, pl.3, fig.i.
Previous records:
Pocock, 1890
:523 [as
Stenopusculus spinosus
Pocock, 1890
]; Chace Jr., 1972:144;
Coelho and Ramos, 1972
:157;
Abele and Kim, 1986
:11;
Coelho and Ramos-Porto, 1998a
:323; Ramos-Porto and Coelho, 1998: 109.
Examined material: MAR/92: Praia da Caieira,
1 male
,
1 female
; JUN/92: Praia do Boldró,
1 male
; AUG/ 92: Baía do Sueste:
2 specimens
; JAN/2000: Praia da Caieira,
1 male
,
1 female
.
Habitat: found in the sublittoral, inside of rocks and submerged reefs; in depths of up to
3 m
; generally in pairs.