Periclimenes yucatanicus ( Ives, 1891 )

Soledade, Guidomar O., Fonseca, Mytalle S. & Almeida, Alexandre O., 2015, Shallow-water stenopodidean and caridean shrimps from Abrolhos Archipelago, Brazil: new records and updated checklist, Zootaxa 3905 (1) : -

Periclimenes yucatanicus ( Ives, 1891)

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Material examined. 1 ov. female, Ilha de Santa Bárbara (17°57’34”S 38°42’15”W), coll. R.M.C. Barbosa & L.M. Fernandes, 30.viii.2013, 8.6 m, on sea anemone (see below), UESC 1547.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Colombia and Brazil (Bahia, Espírito Santo) (Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1998; Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1998; Wirtz et al. 2009).

Previous records from Abrolhos. None.

Remarks. This is the first record of P. yucatanicus from the Abrolhos. The single specimen was found in association with the sea anemone Condylactis gigantea ( Weinland, 1860) ; the same shrimp-host association was reported by Wirtz et al. (2009) in Espírito Santo.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Some stenopodidean and caridean (palaemonid) shrimps from Ilha de Santa Bárbara, Abrolhos, Bahia, Brazil: A, Microprosthema semilaeve (von Martens, 1872); B, Periclimenes yucatanicus (Ives, 1891); C, Typton gnathophylloides Holthuis, 1951. Scale bars = 5 mm.