Minuca rapax ( Smith, 1870 )

Mantelatto, Fernando L., Tamburus, Ana Francisca, Magalhães, Tatiana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Terossi, Mariana, Negri, Mariana, Castilho, Antonio L., Costa, Rogério C. & Zara, Fernando J., 2020, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: III. Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802, Zootaxa 4872 (1), pp. 1-108 : 46-47

Minuca rapax ( Smith, 1870)

( Figure 14F )

Gelasimus rapax Smith, 1870: 134 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♂, CCDB 5296 , Ubatuba, Rio Escuro mangrove, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 22.iv.2012 ; 6 ♂, 4 ♀, CCDB 5301 , Ubatuba, Rio Escuro mangrove, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 22.iv.2014 ; 22 ♂, 14 ♀, CCDB 4060 , Ubatuba, Rio Escuro mangrove, colls. R. Buranelli et al., 23.iv.2012 ; 9 ♂, 5 ♀, CCDB 4999 , Bertioga, Rio Itapanhau mangrove, colls. R. Buranelli & L. Cerantola, 13.iv.2014 ; 1 ♀, CCDB 4038 , Guarujá, Bairro Cachoeira , colls. N. Rossi et al., 24.x.2011 ; 4 ♂, CCDB 3207 , Ilha Comprida, Rio Praia Boqueirão Preto , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 18.iv.2011 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 4233 , Ilha Comprida, Rio Praia Boqueirão Preto , colls. R. Costa et al., 17.iv.2011 ; 3 ♂, CCDB 4042 , Ilha Comprida , beach near ferry station to Cananéia, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 11.iii.2012 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 5682 , Ilha Comprida , beach near ferry station to Cananéia, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 22.vii.2012 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 4055 , Cananéia, Cantagalo estuary, colls. R. Costa et al., 21.v.2012 ; 5 ♂, CCDB 739 , Cananéia , estuary, colls. R. Costa et al., 30.viii.2011 ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 3479 , Cananéia, Rio Bragança estuary, colls. R. Costa et al., 17.iv.2011 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Aruba, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela to Brazil (Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina) ( Rathbun 1918; Chace & Hobbs 1969; Crane 1975; Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1995; Melo 1996; Barros & Pimentel 2001; Bezerra 2012; Sousa et al. 2015; Masunari et al. 2020).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Cananéia ( Gerlach 1958), Ubatuba, and Cubatão ( Bezerra 2012). The species is morphologically close to its congeners M. burgersi and M. mordax ( Masunari et al. 2020) . Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 4042—16S ( MF490221 ), COI ( MF490125 ) ( Mantelatto et al. 2018a).

Figures

FIGURE 14. Family Ocypodidae. A) Leptuca leptodactyla (Rathbun, in Rankin, 1898) (CCDB 5276). B) Leptuca thayeri (Rathbun, 1900) (CCDB 2540). C) Leptuca uruguayensis (Nobili, 1901) (CCDB 5275). D) Minuca burgersi (Holthuis, 1967) (CCDB 5277). E) Minuca mordax (Smith, 1870) (CCDB 5545). F) Minuca rapax (Smith, 1870) (CCDB 5296). G) Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) (CCDB 5087). H) Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) (CCDB 5059).Animals from Brazil, São Paulo state: Ilha Comprida (A, C, D), Ubatuba (B, F, G), Iguape (E), Cananéia (H). Sex: male (A–G), female (H). Scale bars (mm): A—7; B—13; C—7; D—11; E—13; F—16; G—27; H—42. Photographs by R.C. Buranelli.