Pitho lherminieri (Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867 )

Mantelatto, Fernando L., Tamburus, Ana Francisca, Magalhães, Tatiana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Terossi, Mariana, Negri, Mariana, Castilho, Antonio L., Costa, Rogério C. & Zara, Fernando J., 2020, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: III. Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802, Zootaxa 4872 (1), pp. 1-108 : 42-43

Pitho lherminieri (Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867)

Othonia lherminieri Desbonne, in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867: 20 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 2 ♀ (1 ♀ ov), CCDB 1292 , Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta , coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.ii.2000 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 90 , Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta , coll. F. Mantelatto, 15.viii.1997 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (North Carolina), Gulf of Mexico, to Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Bahia, São Paulo) ( Melo 1996, 2008; Mantelatto et al. 2004b; Almeida et al. 2007b; Coelho et al. 2008; Felder et al. 2009).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Ubatuba ( Mantelatto & Fransozo 2000; Bertini et al. 2004; Mantelatto et al. 2004b), Ilha Vitória ( Alves et al. 2012a). The genus previously belonged to the family Epialtidae ( Ng et al. 2008) and was relocated to Mithracidae ( Windsor & Felder 2014, 2017). Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 1292—16S ( MF490208 ), CCDB 4730—COI ( MF490114 ) ( Mantelatto et al. 2018a).