Lysmata cf. intermedia ( Kingsley, 1878 )

Mendonça, Luana M. C., Guimarães, Carmen R. P., Santos, Rafael C., Alves, Douglas F. R., Barros-Alves, Samara P., Silva, Sonja L. R. & Hirose, Gustavo L., 2019, Decapod crustaceans from the continental shelf of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 4712 (3), pp. 301-344 : 330

Lysmata cf. intermedia ( Kingsley, 1878)

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Material examined. Penaeid—1 OF; CL: 3.0 mm; CZUFS CRU- 00318.

Stations. Penaeid—4.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Florida Keys to Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao, and Brazil (Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Sergipe, and from Bahia to São Paulo) ( Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1995; Christoffersen 1998; d’Udekem d’Acoz 2000; Almeida et al. 2007 b; Barros-Alves et al. 2015, 2016; Pachelle et al. 2016).

Ecological notes. From shallow waters to 22 m of depth. On coral reefs and associated with algae on rocky shores ( Almeida et al. 2007 b).

Remarks. Part of a monophyletic group composed of Lysmata seticaudata (Risso) , L. nilita Dohrn and Holthius , L. moorei (Rathbun) , L. intermedia (Kingsley) , L. galapagensis Schmitt , L. argentopunctata Wicksten , L. holthuisi Anker, De Grave & Baeza , and L. intermadia , supported by phylogenetic analysis ( Baeza 2010). Almeida et al. (2007 b) mentioned that the closest species to L. intermedia are the warm–temperate L. seticaudata and L. nilita Dohrn & Holthuis from the northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and that the other species currently recognized in the Atlantic are not closely related. Those authors also suggested that the specimens from Bahia belong to a closely related, undescribed species of Lysmata . Therefore, the species requires a taxonomic revision and it is mentioned here as Lysmata cf. intermedia .

Previous records in Sergipe. Barros-Alves et al. (2015).