Persephona mediterranea (Herbst, 1794)

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 : 28-29

Persephona mediterranea (Herbst, 1794)

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Cancer mediterraneus Herbst, 1794: 150 , tab. 37, fig. 2.

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♂, CCDB 16 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, 24.viii.1998 ; 2 ♀, 2 j, CCDB 1539 , Ubatuba , offshore, coll. D. Rosa, 15.viii.2011 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 3881 , Ubatuba, Enseada do Mar Virado , colls. F. Mantelatto & D. Rosa, 24.vii.2009 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 825 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. A. Castilho & R. Costa, 07.vii.2011 ; 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 264 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, 16.vi.2003 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 2662 , Ubatuba, Enseada do Mar Virado , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 24.vii.2009 ; 2 ♂, CCDB 25 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.vii.1999 ; 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 3597 , Santos , colls. A. Castilho et al., 24.x.2011 ; 1 ♀, CCDB 2839 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto & D. Rosa, 29.xi.2009 ; 1♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 2836 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , coll. G. Hirose, 27.i.2010 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 758 , Caraguatatuba, Enseada de Caraguatatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.vii.2001 ; 1 ♂, 3 j, CCDB 3302 , Ubatuba, Ilha das Palmas , coll. D. Rosa, 22.iv.2011 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Eastern Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Antilles, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapá, Bahia, Sergipe, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), and Uruguay [ Guinot-Dumortier 1959; Powers 1977 (part, not full Gulf of Mexico range); Coelho & Torres 1980; Coelho et al. 1986; Martínez-Iglesias & Hernández 1986; Taissoun 1986–88 (as P. aquilonaris ); Bordin 1987; Melo et al. 1989; Raz-Guzman & Sánchez 1992; Mantelatto & Fransozo 2000; Almeida et al. 2007a; Magalhães et al. 2016; Mendonça et al. 2019).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo state include Ubatuba ( Mantelatto & Fransozo 2000). This species was previously also reported as Persephona aquilonaris ( Magalhães et al. 2016) . However, the authors confirmed that P. mediterranea and P. aquilonaris are both valid species, the former occurring in part of southern Florida, the Caribbean Sea and South America, the latter restricted to the Gulf of Mexico and eastern North

America. Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 2662—16S ( JX102067 ), CCDB 1581—COI ( JX102086 ) ( Magalhães et al. 2016).

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FIGURE 10. Family Leucosiidae. A) Persephona lichtensteinii Leach, 1817 (CCDB 5080). B) Persephona mediterranea (Herbst, 1794) (MZUSP 33205). C) Persephona punctata (Linnaeus, 1758) (CCDB 5169). Animals from Brazil, São Paulo state, Cananéia. Sex: males. Scale bars (mm): A—14; B—30; C—30. Photographs by R.C. Buranelli.