Stenocionops spinosissimus

Overview & Synopsis

Stenocionops spinosissimus (Saussure, 1857)(Figure 11H)Pericera spinosissima (Saussure, 1857): 501. Material examined. Brazil, São Paulo: 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 5818, RV Soloncy Moura Expedition, Point 2, 72m, colls. F. Zara et al., 15.viii.2015; 1 ♀ ov, CCDB 5815, RV Soloncy Moura Expedition, Point 5, 130m, colls. F. Zara et al., 18–21.viii.2015; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, CCDB 5816, RV Soloncy Moura Expedition, Point 4, 117m, colls. F. Zara et al., 18.viii.2015; 1 ♀, CCDB 5891, Ilha de São Sebastião, offshore, coll. F. Zara, 18–21.viii.2015; 2 ♂, 8 ♀, CCDB 5781, RV Soloncy Moura Expedition, Point 8, 89m, colls. F. Zara et al., 18.viii.2015; 1 ♀, CCDB 5807, RV Soloncy Moura Expedition, Point 12, 104m, colls. F. Zara et al., 19.viii.2015.Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (North Carolina to Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Amapá, Pará, Rio Grande do Norte, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul), and Uruguay (Melo 1996, 2010; Cruz-Castaño & Campos 2003; Felder et al. 2009; Hernández-Ávila et al. 2009; Boos et al. 2012).Remarks. Previous records on the coast of São Paulo include Santos and Guarujá as bycatch of the lobster Metanephrops rubellus (Severino-Rodrigues et al. 2007). The morphology of this species was compared with S. furcatus by Colavite et al. (2016). Sequences accession number (GenBank): CCDB 5891—16S (MT075942) (present study), COI (MF490121) (Mantelatto et al. 2018a).