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.
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Zootaxa
2016
4131
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4131.1.1
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Biffarius fragilis
(
Biffar, 1970
)
(
Figure 19
C, D)
Callianassa fragilis
Biffar 1970
: 45
, fig. 3.
Material examined
.
Brazil
, Ceará:
1 female
(with damaged abdomen), LIMCE-UFC 688, Paracuru, Praia da Pedra Rachada, coll. K. Vilanova,
vi.2010
.
Distribution
. Western Atlantic:
USA
(Florida), Gulf of
Mexico
,
Puerto Rico
,
Antigua
,
Venezuela
,
Brazil
(Ceará, Pernambuco); Eastern Pacific (?): Galapagos,
Costa Rica
(Felder
et al.
2009;
Botter-Carvalho
et al.
2012
; present study).
Remarks
. The present specimen represents only the second record of
Biffarius fragilis
in
Brazil
, where the species appears to be less common than
B. biformis
(see above). The main differences between
B. fragilis
and
B. biformis
are the shape of the posterior margin of the telson (with a broad concavity in
B. fragilis
vs. straight in
B. biformis
) and the proportions of the minor cheliped carpus (cf.
Fig. 19
B, C). The identity of the eastern Pacific material of
B. fragilis
needs to be confirmed.