Megalobrachium soriatum ( Say, 1818 )

Mantelatto, Fernando L., Miranda, Ivana, Vera-Silva, Ana L., Negri, Mariana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Terossi, Mariana, Magalhães, Tatiana, Costa, Rogério C., Zara, Fernando J. & Castilho, Antonio L., 2021, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: IV. Infraorder Anomura: Superfamilies Chirostyloidea, Galatheoidea, Hippoidea and Paguroidea, Zootaxa 4965 (3), pp. 558-600 : 567

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.3.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4727386
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scientific name	Megalobrachium soriatum ( Say, 1818 )
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Megalobrachium soriatum ( Say, 1818) View in CoL

Porcellana soriata Say, 1818: 456 View in CoL .

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 5 ♀ ov, CCDB 4362 View Materials , Ubatuba , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 16.xii.2012 ; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 2388 View Materials , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba, Praia do Itaguá , colls. F. Mantelatto & D. Peiró, 03.vii.2008 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 5618 View Materials , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba, Praia do Itaguá , coll. I. Leone, 01.ix.2011 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 5395 View Materials , Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba, Praia do Itaguá , colls. T. Magalhães et al., 30.xi.2014 ; 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 1048 View Materials , Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, Praia do Leste , colls. F. Mantelatto & R. Biagi, ix.1999 ; 2 ♂, CCDB 2018 View Materials , Ilhabela, Praia do Engenho d’Água , colls. F. Mantelatto et al., vii. 2007 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic— USA (North Carolina, Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Barbados, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil (Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo) ( Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1980; Werding et al. 2003; Rodríguez et al. 2005; Coelho-Filho 2006; Coelho et al. 2007; Poupin & Lemaitre 2014; Ferreira & Melo 2016; Mendonça et al. 2019).

Remarks. This species is found on rocks, corals, sponges and calcareous algae, down to depths of 54 m ( Ferreira & Melo 2016). According to Williams (1984), it occurs from shore to 171 m depth. Most of the specimens in São Paulo were collected with colonies of bryozoan S. errata . Sequences accession numbers (GenBank): CCDB 4362—16S ( MF490156 View Materials ), COI ( MF490053 View Materials ) ( Mantelatto et al. 2018).