Published August 24, 2022 | Version v1
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Xiphopenaeus kroyeri

  • 1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia (BIONORTE), Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, AP, Brasil. Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá - IEPA. & inaciavieira 2011 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6911 - 0780
  • 2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia (BIONORTE), Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, AP, Brasil. Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá - IEPA.
  • 3. alinigsantiago @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9773 - 489 X
  • 4. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, AP, Brasil.
  • 5. orlenomarques @ yahoo. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1173 - 1429
  • 6. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia (BIONORTE), Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, AP, Brasil. Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá - IEPA. & Embrapa Amapá, Macapá, AP, Brasil.

Description

Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller, 1862)

Examined material. Municipality of Amapá: Sucuriju River (01°40’35.7”N, 49°55’53.92W), iii.1998, cols. I.M. Vieira, OM. Costa and A.C.Souza, 2 males and 1 female (IEPA162); collection in tidal pools in the Sucuriju River estuary (01°40’23.9”N, 49°54” 56.7W), 22.vii.2002, I.M. Vieira and O.M. Costa, 1 male and 36 females (IEPA364); mouth of Sucuriju River (01°40’09.18”N, 49°55’07.34”W), 4.v.2004, I.M. Vieira, 1 male and 3 female (IEPA520). Municipality of Oiapoque: mouth of Oiapoque River (04°04’25.71”N, 51°38’35.31”W), 22.viii.2013, cols. I.M. Vieira, A.G. Santiago and E.O.Galeno, 2 females (IEPA 1617); idem, collection using trap (04°04’25.71”N, 51°38’35.31”W), 21 a 22.viii.2013, cols. I.M. Vieira, A.G. Santiago and E.O.Galeno, 1 male (IEPA 1618); idem (4°19’49.47”N, 51°11’47.01”W), 21 a 22.viii.2013, cols. I.M. Vieira, A.G. Santiago and E.O.Galeno, 1 male (IEPA 1742); Mouth of Cassiporé River (03°52’53.40”N, 51°08’36.03”W), 24.viii.2013, 21 a 22.viii.2013, cols. I.M. Vieira, A.G. Santiago and E.O.Galeno, 3 males (IEPA1619) (Figure 2).

Geographic distribution. Punta Piaxtla, Sinaloa, Mexico to Paita, Peru; North Carolina to Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea to Santa Catarina (Perez-Farfante & Kensley 1997)

Previous records. (Costa et al. 2003)

Distribution in Amapá state. Estuaries of the Sucuriju, Oiapoque and Cassiporé rivers.

Ecological notes. Inhabits muddy or sandy bottoms, from 1 to 70 m deep, abundant in depth up to 30 m. Marine but can enter brackish waters and exceptionally fresh waters (Cervigon et al. 1992).

Macrobrachium jelskii (Fig. 4), Palaemon carteri (Fig. 5), M. amazonicum (Fig. 3), M. surinamicum (Fig. 4), M. brasiliense (Fig. 4) and E. burchelli (Fig. 1) were the species with greatest geographic distribution in Amapá. Regarding the sampled habitats, the greatest richness of shrimp occurred in rivers and streams, but these also occurred in Amazonas-wells (Table 3). Considering the habitat types, rivers and streams had high species richness, but streams and estuaries were high in Shannon diversity (Table 3).

Notes

Published as part of Vieira, Inacia Maria, Silva, Luiz Maurício Abdon, Almeida, Alini Gomes Santiago De, Almeida, Danilo Pelaes De, Silva-Júnior, Orleno Marques & Tavares-Dias, Marcos, 2022, Diversity, distribution and new records of freshwater and estuarine shrimp in the state of Amapá, eastern Brazilian Amazon region, pp. 41-71 in Zootaxa 5178 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7021864

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References

  • Costa, R. C. da, Fransozo, A., Melo, G. A. S. & Freire, F. A. de M. (2003) Chave ilustrada para identificacao dos camaroes dendrobranchiata do litoral norte do estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotropica, 3, 1 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 1676 - 06032003000100011
  • Cervigon, F., Cipriani, R., Fischer, W., Garibaldi, L., Hendrickx, M., Marquez, R., Poutiers, J. M., Robaina, G. & Rodriguez, B. (1992) Guia de campo de las especies comerciais marinas y de aguas salobres de la costa setentrional de Sur America. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Roma, 513 pp.