Speocarcinus meloi D’Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992

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 : 80

Speocarcinus meloi D’Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992

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Speocarcinus meloi D’Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992: 122 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 2 ♂, CCDB 5458 , Ubatuba, Mar Virado, offshore, coll. D. Rosa, 20.ix.2014 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Brazil (Alagoas, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul) ( Souza 1997; Bertini et al. 2004; Melo 2010; Brandão et al. 2012).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Ubatuba (Bertini et al. 2004, 2010; Brandão et al. 2012). Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859 cited in Fransozo et al. (2012) for Ubatuba probably is S. dentatus . Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 5458—16S ( MF490214 ), COI ( MF490117 ) ( Mantelatto et al. 2018a).

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FIGURE 21. Family Xanthidae. A) Cataleptodius floridanus (Fabricius, 1793) (CCDB 5056). B) Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) (CCDB 6436). C) Platypodiella spectabilis (Herbst, 1794) (CCDB 4897). D) Speocarcinus dentatus Brandão, Coelho-Filho & Tavares, 2012 (CCDB 5864 E) Speocarcinus meloi D’Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992 (CCDB 5458). F) Scopolius nuttingi (Rathbun, 1898) (CCDB 5271). Animals from Brazil, São Paulo state, Ubatuba. Sex: male (A–D, F), female (E). Scale bars (mm): A—6; B—4; C—10; D—14; E—10; F—4. Photographs by R.C. Buranelli.