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
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4131.1.1
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Pinnixa sayana
Stimpson, 1860
(
Figure 24
B)
Pinnixa sayana
Stimpson 1860
: 236
.
Material examined
.
Brazil
, Ceará:
1 male
, LIMCE-UFC 715, Fortaleza, Rio Ceará, coll. unknown,
28.iii.2006
; 1 ov. female,
MZUSP
27597, Paracuru, Praia da Pedra Rachada, sand, in burrow, suction pump, coll. A. Anker & P.P.G. Pachelle,
04.vii.2012
[fcn 12-156];
1 male
, 1 ov. female,
MZUSP
33458, Paracuru, Rio Curu estuary, mud flat, in burrow, suction pump, P.P.G. Pachelle & H. Matthews-Cascon,
29.iv.2014
[fcn PP 14-050].
Distribution
. Western Atlantic:
USA
(Massachusetts to Florida), Gulf of
Mexico
and
Brazil
(Amapá, Pará, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe,
Bahia
, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul) (
Coelho 1997b
;
Melo 1998
; Coelho
et al.
2008; present study).
Remarks
. The specimens from Ceará agree well with
Coelho (1997b)
’s diagnosis of
Pinnixa sayana
, including the armature on the fixed finger of the female chelipeds.