Inventory of Brachyura from natural mesolittoral hard substrata of Coqueiro Beach, Luís Correia, Piauí

• Main Authors: Tarcísio Barbosa Lima Júnior, Mona Indianara da Costa Aragão, José Roberto de Souza de Almeida Leite, Tito Monteiro da Cruz Lotufo, Gustavo Augusto Schmidt de Melo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2010-06-01
• Series: Biotemas
• Subjects: Brachyura; composition; hard substrata; mesolittoral; Piauí
• Online Access: http://www.biotemas.ufsc.br/volumes/pdf/volume232/69a75Final.pdf
• ISSN: 0103-1643

The composition of Brachyura inhabiting natural hard substrata at Coqueiro Beach, on the coast of Luís Correia (Piauí), is presented. A total of 20 species of Brachyura were recorded, eight of which were not previously registered for the state: Epialtus bituberculatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834; Acantholobulus schmitti (Rathbun, 1930); Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850); Panopeus austrobesus Williams, 1983; Panopeus occidentalis Saussure, 1857; Pilumnus dasypodus Kingsley, 1879; Pilumnus spinosissimus Rathbun, 1898; and Planes cyaneus Dana, 1851. The Indo-Pacifi c species Charybdis hellerii (Milne Edwards, 1867) was also identified. The most diverse family was Xanthidae with nine species of crabs, followed by Grapsidae (3), Portunidae (4), Majidae with two species, and Calappidae and Ocypodidae with a single species each.