Hippolyte obliquimanus Dana, 1852

Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, Zootaxa 1553, pp. 1-45 : 15

Hippolyte obliquimanus Dana, 1852

Material examined (N=13). 2m, 12/VI/2004, St. 0 1 ( MZUESC #662); 3f, 07/V/2004, St. 0 1 ( MZUESC #740); 1m, 1f, 18/XII/2004, St. 0 1 ( MZUESC #741).

Distribution. Western Atlantic – North Carolina, Florida, Antilles, Venezuela, and Brazil (Bahia and Rio de Janeiro) ( Udekem d'Acoz 1997).

Habitat: Shallow waters, among algae and seagrass meadows ( Udekem d'Acoz 1997).

Previous records in Bahia. Udekem d'Acoz (1997).

Remarks. Udekem d'Acoz (1997) established H. exilirostratus Dana, 1852 , and H. curacaoensis Schmitt, 1924 , both previously cited from Brazil ( Coelho & Ramos 1972; Christoffersen 1998), as junior synonyms of H. obliquimanus .