Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller, 1862)

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Penaeus kroyeri Heller, 1862: 425; pl.2, fig. 51.

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 5 ♂, 9 ♀, CCDB 2917, Ubatuba, coll. F. Mantelatto, 12.v.2010; 1 ♀, CCDB 3290, Ubatuba, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 04.iv.2011; 4 ♂, 15 ♀, CCDB 3440, Ubatuba, colls. A. Castilho et al., 07.vii.2001; 8 ♂, 7 ♀, CCDB 3950, Ubatuba, coll. R. Costa, 23.iv.2012; 1 ♂, CCDB 5216, Ubatuba, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 16.x.2012; 20 ♂, 17 ♀, 6 j, CCDB 3699, Bertioga, colls. N. Rossi et al., 24.x.2011 ; 2 ♀, CCDB 4009, Santos, colls. A. Carvalho-Batista et al., 24.x.2011; 2 ♂, 9 ♀, CCDB 3247, Cananéia, colls. R. Costa et al., 17.iv.2011; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 5190, Cananéia, colls. R. Costa et al., 11.iii.2012; 1 ♀, CCDB 4917, Cananéia, colls. R. Costa et al., 22.vii.2012 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic— Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil (Maranhão, Rio Grande do Norte, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina) (Gusmão et al. 2006; Piergiorge et al. 2014; Carvalho-Batista et al. 2019; Kerkhove et al. 2019).

Remarks. Previous records from the coast of São Paulo include Ubatuba, Santos-São Vicente, and Cananéia (Gusmão et al. 2006; Piergiorge et al. 2014; Carvalho-Batista et al. 2019). The geographical range of the species can be wider and the all-previous records (before 2019) of some populations must be cautiously considered because these studies did not differentiate Xiphopenaeus kroyeri from the other two congeneric Atlantic species, X. dincao Carvalho-Batista, Terossi, Zara, Mantelatto & Costa, 2020 and X. baueri Carvalho-Batista, Terossi, Zara, Mantelatto & Costa, 2020 . Recently, X. kroyeri was recorded in Egypt, Mediterranean Sea (Khafage & Taha 2019). However, we compared those COI sequences, deposited by Khafage & Taha (2019) in GenBank as X. kroyeri from Egypt, with other available sequences of the same genus and concluded that Khafage & Taha sequences belong to X. baueri, a recently described species from the Gulf of Mexico and north of South America (Carvalho-Batista et al. 2019, 2020). Sequences accession numbers (GenBank): CCDB 5018—16S (KY449065), COI (KX196599) (Carvalho-Batista et al. 2019).