Pagurus provenzanoi Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968

Mantelatto, Fernando L., Miranda, Ivana, Vera-Silva, Ana L., Negri, Mariana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Terossi, Mariana, Magalhães, Tatiana, Costa, Rogério C., Zara, Fernando J. & Castilho, Antonio L., 2021, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: IV. Infraorder Anomura: Superfamilies Chirostyloidea, Galatheoidea, Hippoidea and Paguroidea, Zootaxa 4965 (3), pp. 558-600 : 586

Pagurus provenzanoi Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968

Pagurus provenzanoi Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968: 118 , figs. 72–77, 93, 94.

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 7 ♂, CCDB 5491 , Ubatuba, Píer do Itaguá , colls. N. Rossi et al., 30.xi.2014 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic— Bermuda, USA (Florida), Caribbean Sea, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay ( Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1987; Rieger 1998; Melo 1999; Coelho-Filho 2006; Coelho et al. 2007; Nucci & Melo 2007; Olguín & Mantelatto 2013).

Remarks. Eventhough Pagurus provenzanoi has a wide distribution, it is rare in São Paulo. The occurrence in Uruguay is uncertain ( Scarabino 2006; Spivak et al. 2019). A preliminary molecular phylogeny revealed a close relationship among the South American species of the “ provenzanoi ” clade, including P. provenzanoi and P. brevidactylus ( Olguín & Mantelatto 2013) . Despite the absence of specimens collected in São Paulo, we were able to sample tissue of a specimen from Santa Catarina deposited at the MZUSP and obtain a sequence of 16S, which may be useful in future comparisons. Sequences accession numbers (GenBank): MZUSP 13808—16S ( FJ869154 ) ( Mantelatto et al. 2009).