Lysmata cf. intermedia ( Kingsley, 1878 )

Almeida, Alexandre O., Boehs, Guisla, Araújo-Silva, Catarina L. & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto A., 2012, Shallow-water caridean shrimps from southern Bahia, Brazil, including the first record of Synalpheus ul (Ríos & Duffy, 2007) (Alpheidae) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 3347, pp. 1-35 : 23-24

Lysmata cf. intermedia ( Kingsley, 1878)

Hippolysmata intermedia Kingsley, 1878: 90 .

Material examined. 1 f, 1 ni, 03.VIII.2008, Cairú, Tassimirim Beach, Boipeba Island, MZUESC 1323. Distribution. Western Atlantic—Florida Keys to Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao and Brazil (Pernambuco to Rio de Janeiro) ( Christoffersen 1998; d’Udekem d’Acoz 2000; Almeida et al. 2007b).

Ecological notes. Material from Boipeba Island was collected on a reef, within crevices of calcareous algae concretions, at a salinity of 33 psu.

Previous records. Camamu Bay ( Almeida et al. 2007b, as Lysmata cf. intermedia ).

Remarks. Lysmata intermedia is a species complex ( Anker et al. 2009b). Almeida et al. (2007b) reported some differences between L. cf. intermedia from Camamu Bay, Bahia , and topotypical specimens of L. intermedia (d’Udekem d’Acoz 2000) . The main difference observed (here confirmed by the analysis of two additional individuals) was in the number of articles in the P2 carpus (23–25, more commonly 23 in L. cf. intermedia vs. 25–31, more commonly 28–30 in L. intermedia ). Other small differences were observed in the number of articles in the P2 merus and in the spinulation of the P3–P5 merus and propodus, suggesting that this material belongs to a hitherto undescribed species.