Achelous spinicarpus ( Stimpson, 1871 )

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 : 60-61

Achelous spinicarpus ( Stimpson, 1871)

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Portunus spinicarpus Stimpson, 1871: 148 . Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♀, CCDB 1538 , Ubatuba , coll. D. Rosa; 15.viii.2011 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 3629 , Ubatuba , coll. D. Rosa, 05.ix.2011 ; 1 ♂, 3 ♀, 3 j, CCDB 3712 , Ubatuba , coll. D. Rosa, 15.xi.2011 ; 1 ♀, CCDB 756 , Ubatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.ix.2002 ; 3 ♂, CCDB 6225 , Ubatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, 07.xi.2000 ; 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 6123 , Ubatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, viii.2002 , 1 ♂, CCDB 753 , Caraguatatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.vii.2001 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 3299 , Ubatuba , Ilha das Palmas, coll. D. Rosa, 22.iv.2011 ; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 5782 , RV Soloncy Moura Expedition , Point 8, 89m, colls. F. Zara et al., 18.viii.2015 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (North and South Carolina, Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Brazil ( Amapá, Pará, Ceará, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), and Uruguay ( Holthuis 1959; Williams 1984; Barreto et al. 1993; Melo 1996, 2008, 2010; Bertini et al. 2004; Almeida et al. 2007a; Hernández-Ávila et al. 2007; Almeida & Coelho 2008; Felder et al. 2009; Mendonça et al. 2019).

Remarks. Previous records in São Paulo include Ubatuba (Bertini et al. 2004; Pardal-Souza & Pinheiro 2013) and Caraguatatuba ( Braga et al. 2005). Molecular perspective revealed the phylogenetic position of the species within the resurrected genus Achelous ( Mantelatto et al. 2009, 2018b). Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 756—16S ( KX060431 ), COI ( KX060221 ) ( Negri et al. 2018).

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FIGURE 18. Families Ovalipidae and Portunidae. A) Ovalipes trimaculatus (De Haan, 1833 [in De Haan, 1833–1850]) (CCDB 5863). B) Achelous spinicarpus (Stimpson, 1871) (CCDB 5782). C) Achelous spinimanus (Latreille, 1819) (CCDB 5285). D) Arenaeus cribrarius (Lamarck, 1818) (CCDB 4891). E) Callinectes bocourtiA. Milne-Edwards, 1879 [in A. Milne-Edwards, 1873- 1880] (CCDB 5485). F) Callinectes danae Smith, 1869 (ULLZ 15989). G) Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 (CCDB 5168). H) Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (CCDB 5082). I) Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (CCDB 5253). J) Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818) (CCDB 4892). J) Animals from Brazil, São Paulo state: Ubatuba (A, C, E, F, I, J), Soloncy Moura Expedition, Point 8 (B), Cananéia (D, G, H). Sex: male (A, B, C, D, F, G, I, J), female (E, H). Scale bars (mm): A—36; B—25; C—18; D– 5; E—40; F—52; G—35; H—65; I—25; J—35. Photographs by R.C. Buranelli (A—D, F—J), D. Felder (F).