Picroceroides tubularis Miers, 1886

Mendonça, Luana M. C., Guimarães, Carmen R. P., Santos, Rafael C., Alves, Douglas F. R., Barros-Alves, Samara P., Silva, Sonja L. R. & Hirose, Gustavo L., 2019, Decapod crustaceans from the continental shelf of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 4712 (3), pp. 301-344 : 315-316

Picroceroides tubularis Miers, 1886

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Material examined. Penaeid—1 F; CW = 13.23 mm; CZUFS CRU- 00237.

Station. Penaeid—4.

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Florida and Gulf of Mexico), Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, from Amapá to Alagoas, Bahia, and Espírito Santo) ( Miers 1886; Coelho 1967 /1969, 1971 a; Fausto-Filho & Sampaio-Neto 1976; Barreto et al. 1993; Melo 1996; Coelho-Filho 2006).

Ecological notes. Lives on depths between 20 to 90 m, normally on calcareous algae bottoms ( Melo 1996).

Remarks. According to the classification from Ng et al. (2008), the species belongs to the subfamily Mithracinae , which was recently raised to family Mithracidae ( Windsor & Felder 2014) . Furthermore, some genera, including the Picroceroides Miers , were removed from Mithracidae and included in the subfamily Pisinae Dana ( Windsor & Felder 2014; García & Capote 2015).

Previous records in Sergipe. Coelho (1971 a, b).