Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815

Alves, Maria De Lourdes, Ramos-Porto, Marilena & Viana, Girlene Fábia Segundo, 2008, Checklist of the Decapods (Crustacea) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil, Zootaxa 1881, pp. 43-68 : 63

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.184217
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6229360
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scientific name	Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815
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Family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 View in CoL

Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787)

Diagnosis: Melo, 1996:484.

Previous records: Pocock, 1890:512 [as Ocypoda arenaria (Catesby, 1771) ]; Moreira, 1901:52 [as Ocypoda arenaria (Catesby, 1771) ]; Coelho and Ramos, 1972:198; Fausto Filho, 1974:16; Williams, 1984:468; Abele and Kim, 1986:66; Melo, 1996: 484, 1998:504; Coelho et al., 2002:446.

Examined material: JUN/92: Baía do Sueste, 2 males, 1 female. AUG/92: Praia da Conceição, 5 specimens. SEP/92: Baía do Sueste, 9 specimens. JAN/2000: Baía do Sueste, 1 male.

Habitat: In galleries excavated in the sand.

Observations: observed preferentially at dawn, dusk and during the night; the larger specimen had been collected in the Baía do Sueste.

References

Abele, L. G. & Kim, W. (1986) An illustrated guide to the Marine Decapod Crustaceans of Florida. Technical Series of the State of Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, 8, 760 pp.

Coelho, P. A. & Ramos, M. A. (1972) A constituicao e a distribuicao da fauna de decapodos do litoral leste da America do Sul entre as latitudes de 50 o N e 39 o S. Trabalhos Oceanograficos da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 13, 133 - 236.

Coelho, P. A., Santos, M. A. C., Torres, M. F. A., Monteiro, B. R. & Almeida, V. A. K. (2002) Reino Animalia: Filo (ou Subfilo) Crustacea no Estado de Pernambuco. In: Tabarelli, M. & Silva, J. M. C. (orgs.). Diagnostico da Biodiversidade de Pernambuco. Recife, Editora Massangana, 2, 429 - 482.

Fausto-Filho, J. (1974) Stomatopod and Decapod crustaceans of the Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Northeast Brazil. Arquivos de Ciencias do Mar, 14 (1), n 1 - 35.

Melo, G. A. S. (1996) Manual de Identificacao dos Brachyura (caranguejos e siris) do litoral brasileiro. Pleiade / FAPESP, Sao Paulo, 604 p.

Moreira, C. (1901) Contribuicao para o conhecimento da fauna brasileira. Crustaceos do Brasil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 11, 1 - 151.

Pocock, R. J. (1890) Crustacea In: Ridley, H. N. (Ed.), Notes on the Zoology of Fernando de Noronha. Journal of the Linnean Society, 20, 506 - 526.

Williams, A. B. (1984) Shrimps, lobster and crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 550 pp.