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<emphasis box="[151,323,1860,1884]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Ranilia muricata</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[151,332,1896,1920]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Ranilia saldanhai</emphasis>
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H.
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da
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,396,1965,1991]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Trindade specimens.</emphasis>
1 specimen (MNRJ unnumbered), R/V “Astro Garoupa”, REVIZEE, Trindade Island, stn C5 R49, 20°31’08.4S, 29°21’03.6W, 10.vii.2001, 57 m [not examined. See below under remarks].
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A–C,
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H.
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, female, cl 8.9 mm, cw 13.1 mm (MZUSP 41574). D, E, Habitus and detail of anterior region, respectively, dorsal view. Scales: A–D, 10 mm. Photographs (A–C) by J. Colavite.
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R/V “Le Noroit”, IGMAR 2
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IGMAR 3
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:
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="1987-05-15" collectionCode="MZUSP" country="French Southern Territories" elevation="60" latitude="-7.9166665" location="Recife" longLatPrecision="1302" longitude="-34.8" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" specimenCode="MZUSP 8223" specimenCount="60" typeStatus="holotype">
R/V “Marion Dufresne”,
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MD55/ Brésil Expedition, Vitória–Trindade Seamount Chain, Davis Bank, stn 23 DC40,
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[junior synonym of
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], R/V “Almirante Saldanha”, north of
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,353,1755,1781]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Distribution.</emphasis>
North Carolina, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and
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(
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, Davis Bank in the Vitória–Trindade Seamount Chain, and Trindade Island) (
<bibRefCitation author="Melo, G. A. S. de" box="[793,919,1791,1817]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" refId="ref99288" refString="Melo, G. A. S. de (1996) Manual de identificacao dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do Litoral Brasileiro. Editora, Pleiade, Sao Paulo, 604 pp." type="book" year="1996">Melo 1996</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Serejo, C. &amp; Young, P. S. &amp; Cardoso, I. A. &amp; Tavares, C. R. &amp; Abreu Jr., C. R." box="[930,1130,1791,1817]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" pagination="299 - 337" refId="ref106991" refString="Serejo, C., Young, P. S., Cardoso, I. A., Tavares, C. R. &amp; Abreu Jr., C. R. (2006) Filo Arthropoda. Subfilo Crustacea. In: Lavrado, H. P. &amp; Ignacio, B. L. (Eds.), Biodiversidade bentonica da regiao central da Zona Economica Exclusiva brasileira. Museu Nacional Serie Livros 18. Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 299 - 337." type="book chapter" year="2006">
Serejo
<emphasis box="[1008,1064,1791,1817]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">et al.</emphasis>
2006
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Felder, D. L. &amp; Alvarez, F. &amp; Goy, J. W. &amp; Lemaitre, R." box="[1140,1339,1791,1818]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" refId="ref89643" refString="Felder, D. L., Alvarez, F., Goy, J. W. &amp; Lemaitre, R. (2009) Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea. In: Felder, D. L. &amp; Camp, D. K. (Eds.), Gulf of Mexico. Origin, waters, and biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity. Texas A &amp; M University Press, College Station, Texas, pp. 1019 - 1104." type="book" year="2009">
Felder
<emphasis box="[1218,1274,1791,1817]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">et al.</emphasis>
2009
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; Tavares
<emphasis box="[151,207,1827,1853]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">et al.</emphasis>
2017).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,400,1863,1890]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Ecological notes.</emphasis>
Very little is known about the biology of
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<emphasis box="[886,1078,1863,1889]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Ranilia muricata</emphasis>
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. It has been reported from soft bottoms including sand, loose rubble, and sand and broken shells between 9 and
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.
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Rathbun (1937) reported on crab fragments recovered from fish stomachs. This species is also preyed by the gray tilefish
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<emphasis box="[1201,1436,1935,1961]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Caulolatilus microps</emphasis>
Goode &amp; Bean (
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)
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="21" lastPageNumber="22" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="20.[151,1437,1935,2034]" lastBlockId="21.[151,1437,150,536]" lastPageId="21" lastPageNumber="22" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,2008,2034]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Remarks.</emphasis>
<emphasis box="[323,523,2007,2033]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Ranilia saldanhai</emphasis>
is only known from its holotype (Fig. 9A–C). Rodrigues da Costa (1970) briefly compared
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<emphasis box="[269,411,150,176]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
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to
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<emphasis box="[448,581,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. muricata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, while mentioning that the two species were morphologycally close to each other. Gomes-Corrêa (1970) uncritically accepted
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<emphasis box="[708,847,186,212]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
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as a valid species, whereas
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opined that an in-depth comparison between
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<emphasis box="[522,663,222,248]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[717,849,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. muricata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was necessary. Neither of the two authors examined the
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of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues da Costa" authorityYear="1970" box="[330,472,258,284]" class="Malacostraca" family="Raninidae" genus="Ranilia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="saldanhai">
<emphasis box="[330,472,258,284]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Melo, G. A. S. de &amp; Campos Junior, O." box="[487,836,258,284]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" pagination="63 - 75" refId="ref99410" refString="Melo, G. A. S. de &amp; Campos Junior, O. (1994) O genero Ranilia H. Milne-Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Raninidae) no litoral brasileiro, e descricao de uma nova especie. Iheringia, 77, 63 - 75." type="journal article" year="1994">Melo &amp; Campos Junior (1994)</bibRefCitation>
sunk
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<emphasis box="[904,1046,258,284]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
into the synonymy of
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<emphasis box="[1303,1436,259,284]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. muricata</emphasis>
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upon the examination of the
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of the former species. We have reexamined the
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of
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<emphasis box="[1247,1388,294,320]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
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and found that the defining characters advanced by
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da
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(1970)
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to support
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<emphasis box="[1096,1236,330,356]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are not consistent and cannot be used to differentiate
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<emphasis box="[541,682,366,392]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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<emphasis box="[750,882,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. muricata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In the absence of other characters to separate the two species, we agree that
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<emphasis box="[451,592,402,428]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. saldanhai</emphasis>
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should indeed be considered a junior synonym of
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<emphasis box="[1158,1290,403,428]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">R. muricata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="21.[151,1437,150,536]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">
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<emphasis box="[151,343,438,464]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Ranilia muricata</emphasis>
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is reported here for the first time from the Vitória–Trindade Seamount Chain (Davis Bank). The single specimen reported by
<bibRefCitation author="Serejo, C. &amp; Young, P. S. &amp; Cardoso, I. A. &amp; Tavares, C. R. &amp; Abreu Jr., C. R." box="[476,692,474,501]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" pagination="299 - 337" refId="ref106991" refString="Serejo, C., Young, P. S., Cardoso, I. A., Tavares, C. R. &amp; Abreu Jr., C. R. (2006) Filo Arthropoda. Subfilo Crustacea. In: Lavrado, H. P. &amp; Ignacio, B. L. (Eds.), Biodiversidade bentonica da regiao central da Zona Economica Exclusiva brasileira. Museu Nacional Serie Livros 18. Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 299 - 337." type="book chapter" year="2006">Serejo et al. (2006)</bibRefCitation>
from the Trindade Island (MNRJ unnumbered) was not found for examination.
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