Mithrax tortugae
Creators: name: Mantelatto, Fernando L.
name: Tamburus, Ana Francisca
name: Magalhães, Tatiana
name: Buranelli, Raquel C.
name: Terossi, Mariana
name: Negri, Mariana
name: Castilho, Antonio L.
name: Costa, Rogério C.
name: Zara, Fernando J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Majidae
Mithrax
Mithrax tortugae

description: Mithrax tortugae (Rathbun, 1920)
(Figure 13E)
Mithrax tortugae Rathbun, 1920: 23.
Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♀, CCDB 5693, Ubatuba, Praia do Lamberto, coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.xii.2014; 3 ♂, 2 ♀ (1 ♀ ov), CCDB 1748, Ubatuba, Ilha das Palmas, coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.x.2002; 1 ♀, CCDB 5024, Ubatuba, Ilha das Palmas, coll. F. Mantelatto, 05.x.2002; 1 ♀, CCDB 4130, Ubatuba, Ilha das Couves, coll. F. Zara, 21.iv.2012; 1 ♀, CCDB 1307, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.i.2001; 2 ♂, CCDB 1308, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.ii.2000; 1 ♂, CCDB 1300, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.ii.2000; 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 1302, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.iv.2000; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 1303, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.v.2000; 1 ♂, CCDB 1305, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.ix.2000; 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 1306, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.xii.2000; 3 ♂, CCDB 1746, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.iii.2000; 2 ♂, CCDB 2978, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.iii.2000; 1 ♀, CCDB 5512, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.xii.2014; 1 ♀, CCDB 2980, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, Saco do Miro, coll. F. Mantelatto, 01.viii.2002; 4 ♀ (1 ♀ ov), 2 j, CCDB 5173, Ubatuba, Ilha Vitória, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 20.x.2012; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 5217, Ilhabela, Ilha dos Búzios, coll. F. Zara, 10. iv.2013; 1 ♂, CCDB 5835, Ilhabela, Ilha dos Búzios, coll. F. Zara et al., 10.iv.2013.
Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Florida), Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (Pará, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Catarina) (Melo 1996, 1998; Mantelatto et al. 2004b; Almeida et al. 2007a; Coelho et al. 2008).
Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Ubatuba (Mantelatto et al. 2004b; Alves et al. 2012b), Ilha das Couves (Assugeni et al. 2017), Ilha das Palmas (Magalhães et al. 2017), and Ilha Vitória (Alves et al. 2012a). This species was included in the genus Damithrax (Windsor & Felder 2014) that was posteriorly invalidated and M. tortugae was back assigned to Mithrax (Windsor & Felder 2017). Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 5024—16S (MF490177), CCDB 4130—COI (MF490081) (Mantelatto et al. 2018a).
description: Published as part of Mantelatto, Fernando L., Tamburus, Ana Francisca, Magalhães, Tatiana, Buranelli, Raquel C., Terossi, Mariana, Negri, Mariana, Castilho, Antonio L., Costa, Rogério C. & Zara, Fernando J., 2020, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: III. Infraorder Brachyura Latreille, 1802, pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4872 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4872.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423421