Alpheus petronioi Almeida, Terossi & Mantelatto, 2014

Almeida, Alexandre O., Terossi, Mariana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Castilho, Antonio L., Costa, Rogério C., Zara, Fernando J. & Mantelatto, Fernando L., 2018, Checklist of decapods (Crustacea) from the coast of São Paulo State (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: II. Infraorder Caridea: family Alpheidae, Zootaxa 4450 (3), pp. 331-358 : 340

Alpheus petronioi Almeida, Terossi & Mantelatto, 2014

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Alpheus petronioi Almeida, Terossi & Mantelatto, 2014: 57 , figs 1–3; 4C, D.

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♀, CCDB 4728 , Cananéia, intertidal region in the ferry terminal to Ilha Comprida , coll. T. Davanso & R. Pescinelli, 26.ix.2013.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil (Pará, Bahia, São Paulo).

Previous records. Cananéia ( Almeida et al. 2014).

Remarks. Alpheus petronioi belongs to the A. heterochaelis species complex ( Almeida et al. 2014). The records of A. heterochaelis from São Paulo made by Luederwaldt (1919) correspond, at least in part, to the A. armillatus complex ( Christoffersen 1984; Anker 2012). Other records of A. heterochaelis from São Paulo (e.g., Luederwaldt 1929; Abreu 1980; Mortari & Negreiros-Fransozo 2007) and from other regions of the Brazilian coast mentioned by Soledade & Almeida (2013) must be carefully considered because they may include misidentified species. GenBank accession number: CCDB 4728—16S ( KU312975 ), COI ( KU313005 ).

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FIGURE 1. A) Alpheus brasileiro Anker, 2012 (CCDB 4904). B) Alpheus buckupi Almeida, Terossi, Araújo-Silva & Mantelatto, 2013 (CCDB 5505). C) Alpheus carlae Anker, 2012 (CCDB 6153). D) Alpheus estuariensis Christoffersen, 1984 (CCDB 5048). E) Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 (CCDB 4905). F) Alpheus intrinsecus Spence Bate, 1888 (CCDB 5057). G) Alpheus malleator Dana, 1852 (CCDB 5046). H) Alpheus cf. packardii Kingsley, 1880 (CCDB 5049). I) Alpheus petronioi Almeida, Terossi & Mantelatto, 2014 (CCDB 4728). J) Alpheus thomasi Hendrix & Gore, 1973 (CCDB 5289). Animals from Brazil, São Paulo: Cananéia (A, D, I), São Sebastião (B, C), Ubatuba (E–H, J). Sex: male (A, G, H, J), female (B–F, I). Scale bars (mm): A—9; B—10; C, I—7; D, E, H—8; F, J—11; G—12.5. Photographs by R.C. Buranelli.