Persephona lichtensteinii Leach, 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 : 28

Persephona lichtensteinii Leach, 1817

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Persephona lichtensteinii Leach, 1817: 23 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 1 j, CCDB 19 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.viii.1999 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 23 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 15.viii.1996 ; 2 ♂, 2 ♀, CCDB 1430 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 27.viii.2002 ; 2 ♂, CCDB 2525 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 21.i.2009 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 2663 , Ubatuba, Enseada do Mar Virado , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 24.vii.2009 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 2941 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto & E. Mossolin, 03.viii.2008 ; 2 ♀, 1 j, CCDB 3257 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 05.iv.2011 ; 1♂, USNM 67989 , São Sebastião .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Caribbean Sea, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Colômbia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil ( Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul) ( Finnegan 1931; Holthuis 1959; Coelho 1969; Coelho & Ramos 1972; Coelho & Torres 1980; Rodríguez 1980; Takeda 1983; Taissoun 1986–88 (as P. finneganae ); Bordin 1987; Melo 1989; Werding & Müller 1989; Barreto et al. 1993; Mantelatto & Fransozo 2000; Almeida et al. 2007a, b; Magalhães et al. 2016).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo state include Ubatuba ( Mantelatto & Fransozo 2000). This species was previously also reported as P. finneganae and P. crinita in South America ( Magalhães et al. 2016). However, the authors synonymized the name P. finneganae to P. lichtensteinii and concluded that all the specimens reported as P. crinita represent P. lichtensteinii . Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 1430—16S ( JX102061 ), CCDB 23—COI ( JX102080 ) ( Magalhães et al. 2016).

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FIGURE 10. Family Leucosiidae. A) Persephona lichtensteinii Leach, 1817 (CCDB 5080). B) Persephona mediterranea (Herbst, 1794) (MZUSP 33205). C) Persephona punctata (Linnaeus, 1758) (CCDB 5169). Animals from Brazil, São Paulo state, Cananéia. Sex: males. Scale bars (mm): A—14; B—30; C—30. Photographs by R.C. Buranelli.