Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834 )

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 : 79

Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

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Xantho rufopunctatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834: 389 .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♂, CCDB 6436 , Ubatuba, Ilha das Couves , coll. D. Alves, 16.iv.2019 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (North Carolina, Florida), Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, Honduras, Central America, Antilles, Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Sergipe, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo), and Uruguay ( Rathbun 1898, 1901; Powers 1977; Lemaitre 1984 as Actaea nodosa ; Williams 1984; Keith 1985; Barreto et al. 1993; Cobo et al. 2002; Melo & Veloso 2005).

Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Ubatuba and Ilha das Couves as P. nodosa ( Cobo et al. 2002; Alves et al. 2012a, b). The taxonomy of this species is unclear and should be clarified. Most of the previous records in Brazil were made as P. rufopunctata nodosa (see Coelho et al. 2008) and we speculate that distribution also needs elucidation. Sequence accession number (GenBank): CCDB 6436—16S ( MT849291 ) (present study).

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FIGURE 21. Family Xanthidae. A) Cataleptodius floridanus (Fabricius, 1793) (CCDB 5056). B) Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) (CCDB 6436). C) Platypodiella spectabilis (Herbst, 1794) (CCDB 4897). D) Speocarcinus dentatus Brandão, Coelho-Filho & Tavares, 2012 (CCDB 5864 E) Speocarcinus meloi D’Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992 (CCDB 5458). F) Scopolius nuttingi (Rathbun, 1898) (CCDB 5271). Animals from Brazil, São Paulo state, Ubatuba. Sex: male (A–D, F), female (E). Scale bars (mm): A—6; B—4; C—10; D—14; E—10; F—4. Photographs by R.C. Buranelli.