Urocaris longicaudata Stimpson, 1860

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 : 7

Urocaris longicaudata Stimpson, 1860

Urocaris longicaudata Stimpson, 1860: 39 .

Material examined. 4 m, 13 f, 13.XI.2006, Maraú, Ponta do Mutá, MZUESC 770; 1 m, 14.XI.2006, Maraú, Barra Grande (Barra Grande Pier), MZUESC 783; 2 m, 1 f, 23.XI.2007, Prado, Cumuruxatiba Beach, MZUESC 1061.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—North Carolina to southwest Florida, West Indies to Brazil (Pará to São Paulo) ( Williams 1984; Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1998).

Ecological notes. Shallow subtidal on drifting algae and seagrass on sand bottom (Maraú) and on Sargassum sp. (Prado). Salinity range: 35 psu. Depth range: 0.5 to 72 m ( Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1990).

Previous records. locality not informed ( Coelho & Ramos 1972, as Periclimenes sp. B); Abrolhos ( Gomes Corrêa 1972, as Periclimenes longicaudatus ; Vieira et al. 2012, as Urocaris longicaudata ); Camamu Bay ( Almeida et al. 2007b, as P. longicaudatus ).