Callinectes marginatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861 )

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 : 63

Callinectes marginatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)

Neptunus marginatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1861: 318 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♂, CCDB 2945 , Ilha Comprida , ferry station, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 30.viii.2011 ; 1 ♂, 1 j, CCDB 3291 , Ilha Comprida , Praia Boqueirão Sul, coll. N. Rossi, 20.iv.2011 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 4014 , Cananéia, colls. R. Costa et al. 21.v.2012 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Virginia to Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Carribean Sea, and Brazil ( Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo) ( Powers 1977; Melo 1996; Barros & Pimentel 2001; Dall’Occo et al. 2004; Almeida et al. 2007b; Hernández-Ávila et al. 2007; Almeida & Coelho 2008; Diez & Jover 2015).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo are based on a bibliographic survey as Callinectes larvatus ( Dall’Occo et al. 2004). Its occurrence in Brazil was also registered as Callinectes larvatus Ordway, 1863 ( Pita et al. 1985; Melo 1996; Almeida & Coelho 2008), which was synonymized with C. marginatus ( Ng et al. 2008) . Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 6104—16S ( MW081862 ), COI ( MW081984 ) (present study).