Garthiope spinipes (Milne-Edwards, 1880)

Costa, Dimitri de Araujo, Dolbeth, Marina, Prata, Jessica, da Silva, Francisco de Assis, da Silva, Geuba Maria Bernardo, de Freitas, Paulo Ragner Silva, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, de Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa, Massei, Karina & de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva, 2021, Marine invertebrates associated with rhodoliths / maerl beds from northeast Brazil (State of Paraiba), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62736-62736 : 62736

Garthiope spinipes (Milne-Edwards, 1880)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-110; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 2; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Venezuela and Brazilian coast ( Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo and São Paulo States) ( Alves et al. 2012, Melo and Veloso 2005, WoRMS 2020d).

Distribution in Paraíba: Mataraca, Baía da Traição, Rio Tinto, Lucena, Cabedelo, João Pessoa and Pitimbu Municipalities ( Melo and Veloso 2005) and Seixas Beach (New record).

Notes

Found on the rhodoliths surface.

Diagnosis

(described here): Carapace about a third wider than it is long, convex. Dorsal surface covered with green granules, stronger in front and on the edges, smaller behind; several well-marked granular lines, arranged horizontally at the front of certain areas of the dorsal surface and emphasised by a row of long silks; regions poorly indicated, but nevertheless, delimited and expanded in the previous half (Fig. 10 b).