Automate evermanni Rathbun 1901
Description
Automate cf. evermanni Rathbun, 1901
(Fig. 3)
Automate evermanni Rathbun, 1901: 112, fig. 22.
Material examined. 1 f, 23.XI.2007, Prado, Cumuruxatiba Beach, MZUESC 1063.
Distribution. Western Atlantic—North Carolina to Brazil (Amapá to Rio Grande do Sul). Eastern Atlantic—Cape Verde, Senegal to Nigeria (Crosnier & Forest 1966; Christoffersen 1998; Coelho et al. 2006).
Ecological notes. The single specimen from Bahia was collected from a burrow of unidentified host (or perhaps its own burrow, see Dworschak & Coelho 1999), in fine sand in the intertidal zone, at a salinity of 35 psu. Although primarily a shallow-water species (less than 50 m), A. evermanni has been recorded from as deep as 250 m (Rathbun 1901; Crosnier & Forest 1966; Dworschak & Coelho 1999).
Previous records. None.
Remarks. Automate evermanni may be a species complex (A. Anker, pers. comm.). The present specimen has several appendages missing, including both chelipeds. However, it was possible to distinguish it from the two other western Atlantic species, viz. A. dolichognatha De Man, 1888 (also a species complex) and A. rectifrons Chace, 1972 (Chace 1972; Christoffersen 1998), based on the configuration of the frontal region (Fig. 3 A).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rathbun
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Alpheidae
- Genus
- Automate
- Species
- evermanni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Automate evermanni Rathbun, 1901 sec. Almeida, Boehs, Araújo-Silva & Bezerra, 2012
References
- Rathbun, M. J. (1901) The Brachyura and Macrura of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 20 (2), 1 - 127.
- Crosnier, A. & Forest, J. (1966) Crustaces Decapodes: Alpheidae. In: Campagne de La Calypso dans de Golfe de Guinee et aux Iles Principe, Sao Tome et Annobon (1956), et campagne aus Iles du Cap Vert (1959) (suite). Parte 19, Resultats Scientifiques des Campagnes de la Calypso, 7 (27). Annales de l'Institute Oceanographique, Monaco, 44, 199 - 314.
- Christoffersen, M. L. (1998) Malacostraca. Eucarida. Caridea. Crangonoidea and Alpheoidea (Except Glyphocrangonidae and Crangonidae). In: Young, P. S. (Ed), Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, p. 351 - 372.
- Dworschak, P. C. & Coelho, V. R. (1999) On two alpheids from Araca (Sao Paulo, Brazil) with a description of a new species of Leptalpheus (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien, 101 B, 475 - 488.