Pagurus criniticornis (Dana, 1852)

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

Pagurus criniticornis (Dana, 1852)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-208; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 3; Location: locality: Maceió Beach; verbatimDepth: 4.0 m

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, northern South America, Brazil (Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul States), Uruguay and Argentina ( Nucci and DeMelo 2007, Lemaitre and McLaughlin 2020; this study).

Distribution in Paraíba: Maceió Beach (New record).

Notes

Found on the rhodoliths surface.

Diagnosis

( Nucci and DeMelo 2007): Shield slightly longer than broad. Rostrum obtuse, slightly over-reaching lateral projections. Ocular peduncles slender and shorter than shield width, with corneae slightly dilated. Ocular acicles with anterior margins rounded, with one strong submarginal spine; occasionally accessory marginal spinule on mesial margin. Antennular peduncles over-reaching corneae; antennal peduncles usually not reaching distal margins of corneae; flagella long, usually over-reaching right cheliped (Fig. 10 a).