Aristaeopsis edwardsiana (Johnson, 1868)

Penaeus edwardsianus Johnson, 1868: 897 .

Material examined. None.

Distribution. Western Atlantic— Bermuda, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea to French Guiana, and Brazil (Amapá, Pará, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul). Eastern Atlantic— Portugal (Azores and Madeira Islands), Spain (Canary Islands), Morocco, Western Sahara to South Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Sea. Indo-West, northern and southern Pacific—Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Indonesia, Japan, South China Sea, Australia, Wallis, and Futuna Islands (Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997; Dall 2001).

Remarks. Previous records of the coast of São Paulo, between 700 and 800 m deep and 23ºS and 25ºS, caught by commercial trawling fishery off Brazil, between 2000 and 2007 (Dallagnolo et al. 2009; Pezzuto 2016). There are 16S and COI sequences (AY601734 and KX196551, respectively) available on GenBank of a specimen from Gulf of Mexico by Vázquez-Bader et al. (2004).