Macrocoeloma laevigatum (Stimpson, 1860)

Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, Zootaxa 1553, pp. 1-45 : 28

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.178168

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249237

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scientific name

Macrocoeloma laevigatum (Stimpson, 1860)
status

 

Macrocoeloma laevigatum (Stimpson, 1860)

Material examined (N=1). 1f, 28/VIII/2004, St. 0 1 ( MZUESC #717).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – East coast of the United States, Antilles, and Brazil (from Pará to Alagoas) ( Melo 1996).

Ecological notes. On sand, rock, and algae bottoms. From shallow waters to 30 m ( Melo 1996).

Previous records in Bahia. None.

Remarks. The present record extends the southern distributional limit known for M. laevigatum , formerly represented by Alagoas State, Brazil ( Coelho 1971; Melo 1996), to Camamu Bay (13° S).

Coelho, P. A. (1971) Nota previa sobre os Majidae do Norte e Nordeste do Brasil (Crustacea, Decapoda). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 54, 137 - 143.

Melo, G. A. S. (1996) Manual de identificacao dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do litoral Brasileiro. Editora Pleiade, Sao Paulo, 603 pp.

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Majidae

Genus

Macrocoeloma