Persephona lichtensteinii Leach, 1817

Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1), pp. 1-197 : 107

Persephona lichtensteinii Leach, 1817

Persephona finneganae Rathbun, 1933 – Durand 1959: 32, French Guiana [id. Guinot-Dumortier]. — Guinot-Dumortier 1959a: 434, French Guiana [23–25 m]. — Coelho 1969: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos 1972: 183, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1986: 74, Brazil Amapá [0–100 m]. — Barreto et al. 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.). Accepted as Persephona lichtensteinii Leach, 1817 in Magalhães et al. (2016) and WoRMS (2023).

Persephona lichtensteinii – Holthuis 1959a: 181, Suriname, French Guiana [9–35 m]. — Coelho 1969: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Takeda 1983: 115, Suriname, French Guiana [30 m]. — Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1986: 74, Brazil Amapá [0–75 m]. — Barreto et al. 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Melo 1996: 152, Brazil Amapá. — Melo et al. 1998: 448, Brazil Amapá. — Silva et al. 1998: 89, Brazil Amapá [75 m]; 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Coelho et al. 2008: 15 , Brazil Amapá. — Corbari et al. 2015: 165–167, French Guiana [10 lots in MNHN, e.g., MNHN-IU-2013-2401, stn CP4344, 26/07/ 2014, 47 m, at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2013-2401]. — Magalhães et al. 2016: 12, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al. 2017: tabs 1–6, Brazil Amapá [27–47 m].

non Persephona crinita Rathbun, 1931 – Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1986: 74, Brazil Amapá [5–91 m]. — Barreto et al. 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Melo 1996: 151, Brazil Amapá. — Melo et al. 1998: 448, Brazil Amapá. — Lima & Martinelli-Lemos 2019: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá = probably Persephona lichtensteinii ; the distribution of P. crinita Rathbun, 1931 s. str. is limited to the Gulf of Mexico (see Magalhães et al. 2016).

Distribution/Habitat

WA; marine; 9– 70 m.