Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the “ MOZAMBIQUE ” surveys Author Muñoz, Isabel 0000-0003-1055-0754 eli.munoz@ieo.es Author García-Isarch, Eva 0000-0003-3027-382X eva.garcia@ieo.es Author Cuesta, Jose A. 0000-0001-9482-2336 jose.cuesta@icman.csic.es text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5056 1 1 67 journal article 3930 10.11646/zootaxa.5056.1.1 6e7f4e75-9f6c-43d8-bd88-4ceb637afe60 1175-5326 5577887 D20A249C-1CA4-45F8-8677-D2011A8380A4 Charybdis (Charybdis) feriata (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Figure 14E , preserved) Material examined. M07, Stn. 74, 138m , ♂ 26× 16.8mm (IEO-CD-MZ07/1902), COI ( MZ 434821 ) . Habitat and distribution. Widely distributed in the IWP from South and East Africa through the Gulf of Oman , the Arabian Gulf, Pakistan , India , Sri Lanka to Indonesia , Singapore , Australia , Vietnam , China , and Japan ( Apel & Spiridonov 1998 ). Crosnier (1962) described the distribution of the synonym species Charybdis cruciate (Herbst) in shallow waters of South Africa , Australia , and Japan , at 5-15m (rarely 30m ). Not being recorded in Mozambique since the fifties of last century ( Barnard 1950 ), it has been recently reported by personal observations of IIP-Mozambique. Results and remarks. The single specimen agrees well with the description and figures in Crosnier (1962) and Apel & Spiridonov (1998) . It was collected in March 2007 (M07) at 138m depth, increasing the previously reported bathymetric distribution of the species. Colouration observed. No pictures of the fresh specimen are available. DNA barcodes . Only the COI sequence could be obtained from this specimen, which represents a new haplotype for this species. The closer haplotype is a COI sequence of a specimen from Australia ( MN 184690 ), with differences in two positions (99.68% similarity), ranging between 98.65 to 97.30% of similarity (seven to 14 mutations) with respect to the rest of 60 haplotypes for this species in Genbank.