Exhippolysmata oplophoroides ( Holthuis, 1948 )

Mendonça, Luana M. C., Guimarães, Carmen R. P., Santos, Rafael C., Alves, Douglas F. R., Barros-Alves, Samara P., Silva, Sonja L. R. & Hirose, Gustavo L., 2019, Decapod crustaceans from the continental shelf of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 4712 (3), pp. 301-344 : 329-330

Exhippolysmata oplophoroides ( Holthuis, 1948)

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Material examined. Petro-UFS—1,148 (31 OF, 56 Her); size range: 6.19 ≤ CL ≤ 13.71 mm; average: CL = 10.07 ± 1.86 mm; CZUFS CRU- 00017. Penaeid—227 (111 M, 116 Her); size range: 5.72 ≤ CL ≤ 15.15 mm; average: CL = 10.85 ± 1.60 mm; CZUFS CRU- 00222.

Stations. Petro-UFS—1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17; Penaeid—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—from North Carolina to Brazil (from Amapá to Rio Grande do Sul), and Uruguay ( Christoffersen 1979, 1998; Almeida et al. 2007 a).

Ecological notes. Sampled between 5 and 45 m depth. On mud, mud mixed with clay and shell, sand, and calcareous bottoms ( Christoffersen 1979, 1998; Almeida et al. 2007 a).

Remarks. Part of a monophyletic group composed of Lysmata hochi Baeza & Anker , L. vittata (Stimpson) , Exhippolysmata ensirostris (Kemp) , and E. oplophoroides , supported by phylogenetic analysis ( Baeza 2010). Specimens sampled by Santos et al. (2016) were downstream of the São Francisco River, at the border of Alagoas and Sergipe.

Previous records in Sergipe. Santos et al. (2016).