Banareia palmeri ( Rathbun, 1894 )

In, First Published, 2022, Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 5146, pp. 1-129 : 60

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626365

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scientific name

Banareia palmeri ( Rathbun, 1894 )
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Banareia palmeri ( Rathbun, 1894) View in CoL View at ENA

( Fig. 31A–F View FIGURE 31 )

Actaea palmeri Rathbun, 1894: 85 [Type locality: Rodriguez Creek , Florida].

Trindade specimens. 1 juvenile female ( MZUSP 39576 View Materials ), Brazil, off Espírito Santo, Trindade Island, Ponta do Monumento , 20º30’10.3”S, 29º20’36.1”W, J.B. Mendonça coll., 30.vi. 2013, 19.5 m GoogleMaps .

Size of largest female: cl 5.9 mm, cw 7.1 mm.

Comparative material examined. Banareia palmeri : United States: 1 male ( USNM 214944 About USNM ) , off North Carolina, 33º30’48”N, 77º24’36”W, 1.viii.1981, 30 m. 1 female ( USNM 45575 About USNM ) GoogleMaps , Bahamas, Andros Island, Golding Key , 24º14’00”N, 77º38’03”W, P. Bartsch coll., 1912. 1 male ( USNM 53765 About USNM ) GoogleMaps , Virgin Islands, St. Thomas , 18º20’01”N, 64º55’43”W, C. Schoemaker coll., 11.vii.1915, in harbor, from sponge [M. J. Rathbun det.] GoogleMaps . Brazil: Rio Grande do Norte: 1 male, 1 juvenile female ( MZUSP 7203 View Materials ) , R/V “ Almirante Saldanha ”, stn 1657, 05º33’S, 35º00’W, 8.x.1967, 53 m. GoogleMaps

Distribution. Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Caribbean coast of Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil (Pará to Espírito Santo) ( Melo 1996; Goméz-Lemos et al. 2008; Felder et al. 2009; Diez García 2014). Brazilian oceanic islands: Rocas Atoll ( Paiva et al. 2007) and Trindade (this study).

Ecological notes. Banareia palmeri is rare in the collections. It has been reported in association with the coral Porites furcata Lamarck and sponges (Rathbun, 1924; Boone 1930b, respectively). The male USNM 53765 from St. Thomas was found in association with a sponge (see above under comparative material examined). The juvenile female from Trindade was found in association with the octocoral Plexaurella regia Castro (Tavares et al. 2017: 158, fig. 1E). Felder et al. (2009) reported B. palmeri from rubble to depths of 145 m.

Remarks. The young Brazilian specimens (Rio Grande do Norte and Trindade, see above under comparative material) are distinctly less coated with setae when compared to the thick coated adults from northern localities ( Fig. 31A–F View FIGURE 31 ). Additionally, the juvenile female from Trindade ( Fig. 31A, B View FIGURE 31 ) differs in that the cheliped fingers cross in closed position and the longitudinal rows of granules on the lateral lower part of the cheliped propodus are rather inconspicuous, whereas the lateral lower part of the cheliped propodus has well marked rows of granules, even in the young specimens of about the same size from Rio Grande do Norte. More material from Trindade is needed to judge if these differences warrant recognition of a new species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Xanthidae

Genus

Banareia

Loc

Banareia palmeri ( Rathbun, 1894 )

In, First Published 2022
2022
Loc

Actaea palmeri

Rathbun, M. J. 1894: 85
1894
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