Charybdis hellerii
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
Portunidae
Charybdis
Charybdis hellerii

description: Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867)
(Figure 18I)
Goniosoma hellerii A. Milne-Edwards, 1867: 282.
Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 5 ♂, CCDB 2920, Ubatuba, Enseada de Ubatuba, coll. F. Mantelatto, 26.v.1998; 1 ♂, CCDB 1942, Ubatuba, Praia do Lamberto, coll. F. Mantelatto, 03.v.2007; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, CCDB 4059, Ubatuba, Praia do Lamberto, colls. M. Negri & F. Mantelatto, 22.iv.2012; 1 ♀, CCDB 1407, Ubatuba, Ilha Anchieta, colls. F. Mantelatto et al., 01.i.2001; 1 ♂, CCDB 3884, Ubatuba, Saco da Ribeira, coll. F. Mantelatto, 02.ii.2001; 3 ♂, CCDB 3660, São Sebastião, Araçá mangrove, colls. F. Carvalho et al., 25.x.2011; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 3882, Santos / São Vicente estuary, coll. R. Costa, 14.ii.2011; 1 ♂, CCDB 1459, São Vicente, Praia dos Milionários, colls. F. Zara et al., 23.x.2011; 2 ♀, CCDB 1613, Guarujá, Praia do Guaiúba, colls. A. Castilho & F. Zara, 10.viii.2011.
Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Florida), Cuba, Colombia, French Guiana, Venezuela, and Brazil (Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina). Mediterranean Sea—Israel, Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, and Lebanon. Indo-Pacific—Japan, Philippines, New Caledonia, Australia, Hawaii, and throughout the Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea (Calado 1996; Carqueija & Gouvêa 1996; Negreiros-Fransozo 1996; Tavares & Mendonça Jr. 1996; Mantelatto & Dias 1999; Coelho & Santos 2003; Tavares & Amouroux 2003; Bertini et al. 2004; Bezerra & Almeida 2005; Almeida et al. 2007b; Feres et al. 2007; Frigotto & Serafim-Junior 2007; Almeida & Coelho 2008; Lima-Júnior et al. 2008; Melo 2008; Felder et al. 2009; Musiello-Fernandes et al. 2011; Boos et al. 2012; Bentes et al. 2013; Rosa 2014; Negri et al. 2018).
Remarks. Previous records in São Paulo include Ubatuba (Negreiros-Fransozo 1996; Mantelatto & Souza-Carey 1998; Mantelatto & Dias 1999; Bertini et al. 2004, 2010), Caraguatatuba (Braga et al. 2005), and São Vicente (Sant’Anna et al. 2012). It is an invasive swimming crab that has a worldwide distribution in warm waters (Tavares 2011) and its phylogenetic status, route of dispersion and colonization in America was recently clarified (Negri et al. 2018). Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 4059—16S (KX060454), COI (KX060249) (Negri et al. 2018).
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 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4872.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423421