Euryplax nitida Stimpson, 1859

Mantelatto, Fernando L., Tamburus, Ana Francisca, Magalhães, Tatiana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Terossi, Mariana, Negri, Mariana, Castilho, Antonio L., Costa, Rogério C. & Zara, Fernando J., 2020, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: III. Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802, Zootaxa 4872 (1), pp. 1-108 : 18

Euryplax nitida Stimpson, 1859

Euryplax nitidus Stimpson, 1859: 60–61 .

Material examined. None.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—Bermuda, USA (North Carolina, Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, and Brazil (Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, São Paulo) ( Hay & Shore 1918; Rathbun 1918; Williams 1965, 1984; Abele & Kim 1986; Barreto et al. 1993; Melo 1996, 1998; Almeida et al. 2007b; Felder et al. 2009; Castro & Ng 2010).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo state include Santos (1 female collected in 1961) ( Castro & Ng 2010). It is a small crab (4–28mm) ( Castro & Ng 2010) that occurs in varied depth from shallow subtidal to 90m ( Powers 1977), being rare in samplings.