Update on the lobster species from Rocas Atoll Marine Reserve, Brazil

By

Gaeta, Juliana De Carvalho
Silva, Maurizélia De Brito
De Godoy, Thaís
Izquierdo, Raúl Cruz

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-8-4

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

1705--7

Subjects

Decapoda , Lobsters , Palinurellus , Panulirus , Parribacus , Rocas Atoll

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/11.4.1705

 

Abstract

This study is an update of list of lobster species from Rocas Atoll Marine Reserve, Brazil. The data were obtained trough visual censuses and photographic registers during expeditions since 1997 until 2014. It represents the first record of Enoplometopus antillensis Lütken, 1865, Palinurellus gundlachi Von Martens, 1878, and Panulirus laevicauda (Latreille, 1817) and reinforces the occurrence of Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804), Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869, and Parribacus antarticus (Lund, 1793) from Rocas Atoll. The presence of different lobster species shows us the importance of Rocas Atoll Reserve in relation to number of species and abundance of lobsters.