Pachycheles coelhoi de Azevedo Ferreira & Tavares, 2019

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 : 80

Pachycheles coelhoi de Azevedo Ferreira & Tavares, 2019

Pachycheles coelhoi de Azevedo Ferreira & Tavares, 2019 : Brazil Amapá [Cabo Orange, Project Geomar III, R/V Almirante Saldanha, stn 208, 04°52′ N, 50°31′30″ W, 1971, 118 m]

non Pachycheles rugimanus – Veloso & Melo 1993: 178, Brazil Amapá. — Veloso 1998: 401, Brazil Amapá. — Melo 1999: 242, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al. 2007: tab. 4, Brazil Amapá. According to de Azevedo Ferreira & Tavares (2019) all previous records of P. rugimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 from Brazil Amapá are Pachycheles coelhoi .

Distribution/Habitat

WA (only Brazil Amapá); marine; 118 m.

Remark

It is not clear why “ Suriname ” is indicated by Rodríguez et al. (2005) and de Azevedo Ferreira & Melo (2016) in the distribution of Pachycheles rugimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 . It possibly comes from “Guyanas”, indicated in Werding et al. (2003: tab. 1). Until this record is better defined, it seems more prudent to remove Pachycheles rugimanus from Suriname, especially since it could be corrected to P. coelhoi , as for all other old records of P. rugimanus in nearby Brazil Amapá (see de Azevedo Ferreira & Tavares 2019). The geographic distribution of P. rugimanus is limited to North Carolina to Florida, Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, St Thomas and Virgin Islands (de Azevedo Ferreira & Tavares 2019: 192).