First record of two rare spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea) from Brazil

Author(s)

Alves-Junior, Flavio De Almeida ^{[1, 2]} ; Lucatelli, Debora ^[1] ; Santana, William ^[3] ; De Souza-Filho, Jesser Fidelis ^[1]

Affiliation

^[1] Univ Fed Pernambuco UFPE, Lab Carcinol LabCarcino, Museu Oceanog Prof Petronio Alves Coelho MOUFPE, Av Arviuitetura S-N, Cidade Univ, Recife, PE - Brazil

^[2] Ctr Univ Brasileiro Unibra, Rua Padre Ingles 257, Recife, PE - Brazil

^[3] Univ Sagrado Coracao, Lab Sistemat Zool, Rua Irma Arminda 10-50, BR-17011160 Bauru, SP - Brazil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Zootaxa; v. 4688, n. 1, p. 111-118, OCT 21 2019.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

In this paper we report the first occurrence of two rare spider crabs (Majoidea) from Brazil, with additional morphological information based on material collected in the upper continental slope of the Potiguar Basin, northeast of Brazil. Lepteces ornatus Rathbun, 1893 (Epialtidae), originally described from the Gulf of Mexico and also reported from Uruguay, is now recorded from Brazilian waters (off Rio Grande do Norte), whereas Collodes leptocheles Rathbun, 1894 (Inachoididae) was considered for a long time as an endemic species of Gulf of Mexico and herein is being recorded for the first time in the Southern Atlantic. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/01201-0 - Biodiversity and endemic patterns of Majoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) in Brazil
• Grantee: William Ricardo Amancio Santana
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants