Decapod crustaceans from the continental shelf of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil
Author
Mendonça, Luana M. C.
Author
Guimarães, Carmen R. P.
Author
Santos, Rafael C.
Author
Alves, Douglas F. R.
Author
Barros-Alves, Samara P.
Author
Silva, Sonja L. R.
Author
Hirose, Gustavo L.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-12-20
4712
3
301
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journal article
24569
10.11646/zootaxa.4712.3.1
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1175-5326
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Libinia ferreirae
Brito Capello, 1871
(Figure
4I
)
Material examined.
Petro-UFS—7 (1 M, 1 F); size range: 20.70 ≤ CW ≤
25.47 mm
; average: CW = 23.09 ±
3.37 mm
;
CZUFS CRU-
00081. Penaeid—24 (10 M, 12 F, 2
OF
); size range: 4.59 ≤ CW ≤
66.59 mm
; average: CW =
17.20 ± 17.42 mm
;
CZUFS CRU-
00232.
Stations.
Petro-UFS—10, 13, 14, 16, and 17; Penaeid—1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Distribution.
Western Atlantic—Venezuela and
Brazil
(from
Amapá
to
Rio Grande do Sul
) (
Melo 1996
,
2010
).
Ecological notes.
From intertidal waters to
35 m
, usually on mud bottoms (
Melo 2010
). Some individuals of
L. ferreirae
found living inside the oral arms or the gastrovascular cavity of
Lychnorhiza lucerna
Haeckel
(Cnidaria, Schyphozoa), only one per jellyfish, in Southern
Brazil
(Nogueira Jr. & Haddad 2005).
Previous records in
Sergipe
.
Coelho & Ramos (1972)
,
Coelho
et al.
(1983)
,
Barreto
et al.
(1993)
,
Coelho
et al
. (2004)
.