Zaops ostreum (Say, 1817)

Mantelatto, Fernando L., Tamburus, Ana Francisca, Magalhães, Tatiana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Terossi, Mariana, Negri, Mariana, Castilho, Antonio L., Costa, Rogério C. & Zara, Fernando J., 2020, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: III. Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802, Zootaxa 4872 (1), pp. 1-108 : 58

Zaops ostreum ( Say, 1817 [in Say, 1817 –1818])

Pinnotheres ostreum ( Say, 1817 [in Say, 1817 –1818]): 67, fig. 5.

Material examined. None.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Massachusetts to Florida), Mexico (Gulf of Mexico), Belize, Panama, Venezuela, Antilles, and Brazil ( Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina) ( Abele & Kim 1986; Martins & D’Incao 1996; Melo 1996, 1998; Bezerra et al. 2006; Almeida & Coelho 2008; Palacios-Theil et al. 2009, 2016).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Ubatuba ( Negreiros-Fransozo et al. 2002). This species is found associated with bivalves Cassostrea, Anomia , Mytilus, Pecten , and in burrows of polychaetes ( Martins & D’Incao 1996; Melo 1998), being difficult to sample.