Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 )

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 : 65

Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867)

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Goniosoma hellerii A. Milne-Edwards, 1867: 282 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 5 ♂, CCDB 2920 , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba , coll. F. Mantelatto, 26.v.1998 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 1942 , Ubatuba, Praia do Lamberto , coll. F. Mantelatto, 03.v.2007 ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, CCDB 4059 , Ubatuba, Praia do Lamberto , colls. M. Negri & F. Mantelatto, 22.iv.2012 ; 1 ♀, CCDB 1407 , Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.i.2001 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 3884 , Ubatuba, Saco da Ribeira , coll. F. Mantelatto, 02.ii.2001 ; 3 ♂, CCDB 3660 , São Sebastião, Araçá mangrove, colls. F. Carvalho et al., 25.x.2011 ; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 3882 , Santos / São Vicente estuary, coll. R. Costa, 14.ii.2011 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 1459 , São Vicente, Praia dos Milionários , colls. F. Zara et al., 23.x.2011 ; 2 ♀, CCDB 1613 , Guarujá, Praia do Guaiúba , colls. A. Castilho & F. Zara, 10.viii.2011 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Florida), Cuba, Colombia, French Guiana, Venezuela, and Brazil (Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina). Mediterranean Sea—Israel, Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, and Lebanon. Indo-Pacific—Japan, Philippines, New Caledonia, Australia, Hawaii, and throughout the Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea ( Calado 1996; Carqueija & Gouvêa 1996; Negreiros-Fransozo 1996; Tavares & Mendonça Jr. 1996; Mantelatto & Dias 1999; Coelho & Santos 2003; Tavares & Amouroux 2003; Bertini et al. 2004; Bezerra & Almeida 2005; Almeida et al. 2007b; Feres et al. 2007; Frigotto & Serafim-Junior 2007; Almeida & Coelho 2008; Lima-Júnior et al. 2008; Melo 2008; Felder et al. 2009; Musiello-Fernandes et al. 2011; Boos et al. 2012; Bentes et al. 2013; Rosa 2014; Negri et al. 2018).

Remarks. Previous records in São Paulo include Ubatuba ( Negreiros-Fransozo 1996; Mantelatto & Souza-Carey 1998; Mantelatto & Dias 1999; Bertini et al. 2004, 2010), Caraguatatuba ( Braga et al. 2005), and São Vicente ( Sant’Anna et al. 2012). It is an invasive swimming crab that has a worldwide distribution in warm waters (Tavares 2011) and its phylogenetic status, route of dispersion and colonization in America was recently clarified ( Negri et al. 2018). Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 4059—16S ( KX060454 ), COI ( KX060249 ) ( Negri et al. 2018).

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FIGURE 18. Families Ovalipidae and Portunidae. A) Ovalipes trimaculatus (De Haan, 1833 [in De Haan, 1833–1850]) (CCDB 5863). B) Achelous spinicarpus (Stimpson, 1871) (CCDB 5782). C) Achelous spinimanus (Latreille, 1819) (CCDB 5285). D) Arenaeus cribrarius (Lamarck, 1818) (CCDB 4891). E) Callinectes bocourtiA. Milne-Edwards, 1879 [in A. Milne-Edwards, 1873- 1880] (CCDB 5485). F) Callinectes danae Smith, 1869 (ULLZ 15989). G) Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 (CCDB 5168). H) Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (CCDB 5082). I) Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) (CCDB 5253). J) Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818) (CCDB 4892). J) Animals from Brazil, São Paulo state: Ubatuba (A, C, E, F, I, J), Soloncy Moura Expedition, Point 8 (B), Cananéia (D, G, H). Sex: male (A, B, C, D, F, G, I, J), female (E, H). Scale bars (mm): A—36; B—25; C—18; D– 5; E—40; F—52; G—35; H—65; I—25; J—35. Photographs by R.C. Buranelli (A—D, F—J), D. Felder (F).