Pachygrapsus gracilis ( de Saussure, 1857 )

Pachygrapsus gracilis ( de Saussure, 1857) View in CoL

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Metopograpsus gracilis de Saussure, 1857: 443 View in CoL , pl. 2, fig. 15.

Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 4 ♀ ov, CCDB 5482 View Materials , Ubatuba, Praia Itaguá , colls. R. Robles et al., 30.xi.2014 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 5495 View Materials , Ubatuba, Praia Itaguá , colls. R. Robles et al., 30.xi.2014 ; 2 ♂, 2 ♀, CCDB 811 View Materials , Cananéia, Rio Baguaçu estuary, colls. R. Costa et al., 30.viii.2011 ; 1 ♂, CCDB 1234 View Materials , Cananéia , IO / USP, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 29.viii.2011 ; 3 ♂, 6 ♀ (1 ♀ ov), CCDB 3265 View Materials , Cananéia , IO / USP, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 14.iv.2011 ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀ ov, CCDB 3763 View Materials , Cananéia , IO / USP, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 10.iii.2011 ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 5045 View Materials , Cananéia , IO / USP, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 10.iii.2012 .

Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (North Carolina, Florida, Gulf of Mexico), Antilles, Colombia, French Guiana, and Brazil (Pará, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul). Eastern Atlantic—Angola, Senegal and Cape Verde; Mediterranean Sea ( Rathbun 1918; Warner 1969; Melo 1996; Barros & Pimentel 2001; Poupin et al. 2005; Almeida et al. 2007b; Diele et al. 2010).

Remarks. Previous records in São Paulo state include Cananéia ( Tiseo et al. 2014, 2017). The distribution of P. gracilis in the Eastern Pacific—USA (California) to Peru ( Melo 1996)—was discarded and the specimens from the Pacific coast were assigned to the resurrected species Pachygrapsus socius ( Schubart et al. 2005) . Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 811—16S ( MF490200 View Materials ), COI ( MF490106 View Materials ) ( Mantelatto et al. 2018a).