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).