Metoporhaphis calcarata (Say, 1818)

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 : 27

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249227

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scientific name

Metoporhaphis calcarata (Say, 1818)
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Material examined (N=4). 1f, 19/IX/2000, 13°52’99”S / 38°59’59”W ( MZUESC #54); 1m, 07/VIII/2005, St. 0 5 ( MZUESC #678).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – North Carolina, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and Brazil (from Rio Grande do Norte to Rio de Janeiro) ( Melo 1996).

Ecological notes. On coral, rocks, hydroids, and oysters. From shallow waters to 90 m ( Melo 1996).

Previous records in Bahia. Miers (1886) (as M. forficulatus A. Milne Edwards, 1878 ), Moreira (1901) (as M. forficulatus ), Joly et al. (1969), Gomes Corrêa (1972), Almeida et al. (2003, 2007).

Remarks. This species was recorded from Camamu Bay by Almeida et al. (2003). In Northeast Brazil, it ranges from Rio Grande do Norte to Abrolhos ( Miers 1886; Joly et al. 1969; Ferreira & Sankarankutty 2002).

Joly, A. B., Oliveira Filho, E. & Narchi, W. (1969) Projeto de criacao de um Parque Nacional Marinho na regiao de Abrolhos, Bahia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 41 (Supl.), 247 - 251.

Gomes Correa, M. M. (1972) Contribuicao ao conhecimento da fauna do Arquipelago de Abrolhos, Bahia, Brasil. 2 - Lista preliminar de crustaceos decapodos. Boletim do Museu de Historia Natural, Zoologia, Belo Horizonte, 15, 1 - 19.

Almeida, A. O., Coelho, P. A. & Santos, J. T. A. (2003) New records of decapod crustaceans (Dendrobranchiata and Brachyura) for the state of Bahia, Brazil. Nauplius, 11 (2), 129 - 133.

Almeida, A. O., Coelho, P. A., Santos, J. T. A. & Ferraz, N. R. (2007) Crustaceos estomatopodos e decapodos da costa de Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil. Atlantica, 29 (1).

Ferreira, A. C. & Sankarankutty, C. (2002) Estuarine carcinofauna (Decapoda) of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Nauplius, 10, 121 - 129.

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

Miers, E. J. (1886) Report on the Brachyura collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger During the Years 1873 - 1876, Zoology, 17 (49), 1 - 362.

Milne Edwards, A. (1878) Etudes sur les Crustaces Podophthalmaires de la region mexicaine. Recherches Zoologiques pour Servir a l'Histoire de la Faune de l'Amerique Centrale et du Mexique, 5, 121 - 184.

Moreira, C. (1901) Contribuicoes para o conhecimento da fauna brasileira. Crustaceos do Brazil. Archivos do Museu Nacional, 11, 1 - 151.

MZUESC

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

Family

Inachidae

Genus

Metoporhaphis