Automate evermanni subsp. sensu
- Dataset
- Decapod crustaceans from the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil: an updated checklist of marine and estuarine species, with 23 new records
- Rank
- SUBSPECIES
- Published in
- Pachelle, Paulo P. G., Anker, Arthur, Mendes, Cecili B., Bezerra, Luis E. A. (2016): Decapod crustaceans from the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil: an updated checklist of marine and estuarine species, with 23 new records. Zootaxa 4131 (1): 1-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4131.1.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Alpheidae
- genus
- Automate
discussion
Remarks. Automate evermanni represents a transisthmian and amphi-Atlantic species complex that will require further studies (Anker, in prep.).
distribution
Distribution. Western Atlantic: USA (North Carolina) and Caribbean Sea to Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Amapá, Pará, Ceará, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul); Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde, Senegal to Nigeria (Christoffersen 1998; Coelho et al. 2006; Coelho Filho 2006; Almeida et al. 2012; present study).
materials_examined
Material examined. 1 juvenile specimen (in poor condition), LIMCE-UFC 782, Fortaleza, off Praia de Meireles, dredge, coll. unknown, iv. 2012; 1 ov. female, OUMNH. ZC. 2015 - 01 - 0003, Icapuí, Praia de Requenguela, Banco dos Cajuais, sea grass mud flat, in burrow, suction pump, coll. A. Anker & P. P. G. Pachelle, 03. vi. 2012 [fcn 12 - 077]; 1 female? (missing most legs), MZUSP 34000, same collection data [fcn 12 - 078].
Name
- Homonyms
- Automate evermanni subsp. sensu