Pseudostegias atlantica Lemos de Castro, 1965

Fernandes, Cristiana S. Serejo Agatha C. S., 2025, Illustrated type catalogue of marine Isopoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Brazil, Nauplius (e 20250535) 33, pp. 1-39 : 26-27

Pseudostegias atlantica Lemos de Castro, 1965

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Pseudostegias atlantica Lemos de Castro, 1965: 105 , figs. 1–8. — Markham, 1978: 115. — Page, 1985: 203. — Brasil-Lima, 1998: 640. — Williams and Boyko, 1999: 720 (key). — Markham, 2003: 72. — Boyko, 2004: 701. — McDermott et al., 2010: 11 — Ribeiro et al. 2019a: 1, 2, 6, figs. 2–4. — Romero-Rodriguez and Álvarez, 2023: 135 (tab. 1), 139–141, figs. 1, 2B, 4. — Ribeiro and Horch, 2023: 154–155, 170 (key).

Type material. Holotype: female, 5.5 mm, MNRJ

6100. Allotype: male, 3 mm, MNRJ 6101 .

Type locality. Mucuripe Beach (3°43’18’’S 38°28’W), Fortaleza , CE, Brazil. Found as parasite of Clibanarius sp .

Geographic distribution. Venezuela. Gulf of Mexico ( Ribeiro et al., 2019a; Romero-Rodriguez and Álvarez, 2023). Brazil ( CE, AL) ( Lemos de Castro, 1965; Brasil-Lima, 1998).

Habitat. Abdominal parasite of Clibanarius antillensis Stimpson, 1859 , Calcinus tibicen Herbst, 1791 , and Paguristes tortugae Schmitt, 1933 ( Lemos de Castro, 1965; Ribeiro et al. 2019a; Romero-Rodriguez and Álvarez, 2023).

Current systematic position. Pseudostegias atlantica

Lemos de Castro, 1965.

Figures

Figure 18. Pseudostegias atlantica Lemos de Castro, 1965, holotype, female, 5.5 mm, MNRJ 6100.