On a record of Dardanus venosus (H. Milne Edwards) (Crustacea, Anomura) from the São Paulo State, Brazil

Mantelatto, Fernando Luis Medina; Garcia, Renata Biagi; Martinelli, Jussara Moretto; Hebling, Nilton José

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752001000100006

Abstract

The present work is the first report of Dardanus venosus (H. Milne Edwards, 1848) in São Paulo State and extends the range of this species in the western Atlantic farther to the south in the Brazilian region. A total of twenty two males (mean shield length: 7.56 ± 1.62 mm, 4.7 to 10.9 mm), and fifteen females (7.25 ± 2.53 mm, 4.3 to 14.5 mm) were collected in 1987, 1998, 1999 and 2000 by scuba diving from three areas of Anchieta Island (23º33'S, 45º05'W) in the Ubatuba region, and south of São Sebastião Island (23º57.8'S, 45º16'W), northern coast of São Paulo State. No ovigerous females were captured during the study period. Shells of eleven gastropod species were occupied by D. venosus: Astraea latispina (Philippi, 1844), A. olfersii (Philippi, 1846), A. phoebia Roding 1798, Calliostoma bullisi Clench & Turner 1960, Chicoreus tenuivaricosus (Dautzenberg, 1927), Cymatium parthenopeum (von Salis, 1793), Olivancillaria urceus (Röding, 1798), Phalium granulation (Born, 1778), Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767), Strombus pugilis Linnaeus, 1758 and Zidona dufresnei (Donovan, 1823).

Brazil; Crustacea; distribution; hermit crab

On a record of Dardanus venosus (H. Milne Edwards) (Crustacea, Anomura) from the São Paulo State, Brazil

Fernando Luis Medina Mantelatto^I; Renata Biagi Garcia^I,II; Jussara Moretto Martinelli^I; Nilton José Hebling^III

^IDepartamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP). 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil. E-mail: flmantel@spider.usp.br

^IICurso de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Comparada, FFCLRP/USP

^IIIDepartamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Avenida 24-A, 1515, Caixa Postal 199, 13506-900 Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil

ABSTRACT

The present work is the first report of Dardanus venosus (H. Milne Edwards, 1848) in São Paulo State and extends the range of this species in the western Atlantic farther to the south in the Brazilian region. A total of twenty two males (mean shield length: 7.56 ± 1.62 mm, 4.7 to 10.9 mm), and fifteen females (7.25 ± 2.53 mm, 4.3 to 14.5 mm) were collected in 1987, 1998, 1999 and 2000 by scuba diving from three areas of Anchieta Island (23º33'S, 45º05'W) in the Ubatuba region, and south of São Sebastião Island (23º57.8'S, 45º16'W), northern coast of São Paulo State. No ovigerous females were captured during the study period. Shells of eleven gastropod species were occupied by D. venosus: Astraea latispina (Philippi, 1844), A. olfersii (Philippi, 1846), A. phoebia Roding 1798, Calliostoma bullisi Clench & Turner 1960, Chicoreus tenuivaricosus (Dautzenberg, 1927), Cymatium parthenopeum (von Salis, 1793), Olivancillaria urceus (Röding, 1798), Phalium granulation (Born, 1778), Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767), Strombus pugilis Linnaeus, 1758 and Zidona dufresnei (Donovan, 1823).

Key words: Brazil, Crustacea, distribution, hermit crab

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. FLMM and RBG are grateful to Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP, Grant # 98/07454-5; # 97/14245-0) for financial support. Special thanks are due to Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Estado de São Paulo and Parque Estadual da Ilha Anchieta for permission (Proc. # 42358/98) and facilities during sample work, to Dr. José Carlos de Freitas (University of São Paulo) and Mr. Gilberto Pereira da Silva for collections of some specimens (n = 7) on São Sebastião and Anchieta Islands, respectively, and also to Drs. Osmar Domaneschi (University of São Paulo) and Gustavo A. S. de Melo for shell and hermit species identification, respectively.

Recebido em 23.III.2000; aceito em 19.III.2001.

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Melo, G.A.S. 1999. Manual de Identificação dos Crustacea Decapoda do litoral brasileiro: Anomura. Thalassinidea, Palinuridea e Astacidea. Ed Plêiade, São Paulo, 551p.
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Publication Dates

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30 Apr 2009
Date of issue
Mar 2001

History

Accepted
19 Mar 2001
Received
23 Mar 2000

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[1] Biffar, T.A. & A.J. Provenzano Jr. 1972. A reexamination of Dardanus venosus (H. Milne Edwards) and D. imperator (Miers), with a description of a new species of Dardanus from the western Atlantic (Crustacea, Decapoda, Diogenidae). Bull. mar. Sci. 22(4):777-805.

[2] Lancaster, I. 1990. Reproduction and life history strategy of the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus. Jour. mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 70:189-238.

[3] Mantelatto, F.L.M. & L.L. Dias. 1999. Extension of the distribution of Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne Edwards, 1867) (Portunidae) along the western tropical South Atlantic. Crustaceana 72(6):617-620.

[4] Melo, G.A.S. 1999. Manual de Identificação dos Crustacea Decapoda do litoral brasileiro: Anomura. Thalassinidea, Palinuridea e Astacidea. Ed Plêiade, São Paulo, 551p.

[5] Rieger, P.J. 1997. Os "'ermitões" (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parapaguridae, Diogenidae e Paguridae) do litoral do Brasil. Nauplius 5(2):99-124.

[6] Rieger, P.J. & J.L.B. Giraldi. 1997. Calcinus tibicen (Herbst, 1791) e Pagurisies tortugae Schimitt, 1933, novo registro de Diogenidae (Decapoda, Anomura) para o litoral de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Nauplius 5(2):159-161.

[7] Tavares, M. & J.B. Mendonça Jr. 1996. Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne Edwards, 1867) (Brachyura: Portunidae), eighth nonindigenous marine decapod recorded from Brazil. Crustacean Res. 25:151-157.