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
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039387B5-9240-FFCA-A69A-FB253239233A
treatment provided by	Plazi
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.