Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856)

Lupea exasperatus Gerstaecker, 1856: 129 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♀, CCDB 4142, Cananéia, coll. R. Costa, 20.v.2012; 1 ♂, CCDB 5069, Ilha Comprida, Praia Boqueirão Sul, colls. T. Camargo et al., 11.iii.2012 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Florida), Bermuda, southeast of Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Brazil (Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Catarina) (Powers 1977; Melo 1996; Barros & Pimentel 2001; Almeida et al. 2007b; Almeida & Coelho 2008; Felder et al. 2009; Sousa et al. 2015).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Santos-São Vicente estuary and bay complex (Pita et al. 1985; Sant’Anna et al. 2012; Mantelatto et al. 2014b), Ubatuba (Mantelatto et al. 2014b), and Cananéia (Negri et al. 2018). Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 802—16S (KX060432), COI (KX060222) (Negri et al. 2018).