Macrobrachium acanthurus ( Wiegmann, 1836 )

Almeida, Alexandre O., Boehs, Guisla, Araújo-Silva, Catarina L. & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto A., 2012, Shallow-water caridean shrimps from southern Bahia, Brazil, including the first record of Synalpheus ul (Ríos & Duffy, 2007) (Alpheidae) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 3347, pp. 1-35 : 6

Macrobrachium acanthurus ( Wiegmann, 1836)

Palaemon acanthurus Wiegmann, 1836: 150 .

Material examined. 1 m, 1 f, 07.V.2008, Canavieiras, Patipe River, MZUESC 1237. See report by Almeida et al. (2006).

Distribution. North Carolina to Texas, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname and Brazil (Pará to Rio Grande do Sul) ( Melo 2003).

Ecological notes. Juveniles were collected in the mangrove of Acuípe River, at low tide, in pools among roots of Rhizophora mangle . The specimen from the Almada River estuary, a young female (MZUESC 560) (see Almeida et al. 2006), was found among roots of the water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes , and may have been carried there by the river current. In the Patipe River, adult specimens were obtained from plant debris, at a salinity of 9 psu.

Previous records. locality not informed (von Ihering 1897, as Palaemon acanthurus ; Sawaya 1946, as M. acanthurus ; Holthuis 1952, as M. acanthurus ); Ilhéus (Almeida et al. 2006, 2008a, as M. acanthurus ; Ferreira et al. 2010, as M. acanthurus ); Camamu Bay ( Almeida et al. 2007b, as M. acanthurus ); Itacaré, Uruçuca and Una ( Almeida et al. 2008a, as M. acanthurus ); Mar Grande and Mucuri ( Ferreira et al. 2010, as M. acanthurus ).