Decapod crustaceans from the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil: an updated checklist of marine and estuarine species, with 23 new records
Author
Pachelle, Paulo P. G.
Author
Anker, Arthur
Author
Mendes, Cecili B.
Author
Bezerra, Luis E. A.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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Ogyrides alphaerostris
(
Kingsley, 1880
)
(
Figure 13
)
Ogyris alphaerostris
Kingsley 1880
: 420
, pl. 14, fig. 7.
Material examined
.
Brazil
, Ceará: 1 ov. female,
MZUSP
27614, Icapuí, Praia de Tremembé, sand-mud flat, among sea grass beds, in burrow, suction pump, coll. P.P.G. Pachelle & C.B. Mendes,
19.viii.2012
[fcn PP 12-029];
3 females
,
MZUSP
32730, Paracuru, Praia da Pedra Rachada, sand-mud flat, in burrows of
Callichirus major
(
Say, 1818
)
, suction pump, coll. P.P.G. Pachelle,
11.viii.2014
.
Distribution
. Western Atlantic:
USA
(Virginia) to
Brazil
(Amapá, Pará, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas,
Bahia
, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul); Eastern Pacific (?):
Mexico
(Baja California and Sinaloa) (
Carvacho & Olson 1984
;
Hendrickx 1993
;
Christoffersen 1998
;
Ferreira & Sankarankutty 2002
; Coelho
et al
. 2006;
Almeida
et al.
2013a
; present study).
Remarks
. The specimens from Ceará agree well with the diagnosis of
Ogyrides alphaerostris
provided by
Williams (1984)
, differing only in the second article of the antennular peduncle being about three times the length of the third (vs. about 2.5 times in Williams’s illustrations). All specimens from Ceará have a small spiniform seta on the distolateral margin of the antepenultimate article of the third maxilliped, as illustrated for the eastern Pacific
O. wickstenae
Ayón-Parente & Salgado-Barragán, 2013
and also present in the Ceará material of
O. hayi
Williams, 1981
(see below); whether the specimens from the eastern
USA
also have such a spiniform seta remains unknown. Our specimens also bear five to eight post-rostral teeth on the carapace, thus falling into the reported variation range of the species (
Williams 1984
). Noteworthy, some specimens were extracted from burrows of the large ghost-shrimp,
Callichirus major
. The identity of the eastern Pacific material of
O. alphaerostris
needs to be confirmed.