Porcellana sayana ( Leach, 1820 )

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 : 308-309

Porcellana sayana ( Leach, 1820)

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Material examined. Petro-UFS—1 F; CSL: 5.46 mm; CZUFS CRU- 00079. Penaeid—8 (3 M, 4 F, 1 OF); size range: 3.46 ≤ CSL ≤ 7.00 mm; average: CSL = 4.93 ± 1.16 mm; CZUFS CRU- 00256.

Stations. Petro-UFS—15; Penaeid—6.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (from North Carolina to Florida, and Gulf of Mexico), Bahamas, Antilles, Central America, the north of South America ( Colombia, Venezuela), Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil (from Amapá to Rio Grande do Sul), and Uruguay ( Melo 1999; Almeida et al. 2007 a).

Ecological notes. From intertidal zones to 92 m depth. Mud, shell and sand bottoms. It can also be commensal of Paguridae , Diogenidae , and the Gastropoda Lobatus gigas (Linnaeus) ( Melo 1999; Almeida et al. 2007 a).

Remarks. Porcellana frontalis Heller and Porcellana stimpsoni A. Milne-Edwards were considered a synonym of P. sayana ( Lemaitre & Campos 2000) . Specimens collected 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).