Crustáceos decápodos associados a esponjas no litoral do Estado do Ceará, Brasil

Abstract

Neste trabalho é apresentada a fauna de crustáceos decápodos associados a esponjas coletadas ao largo da cidade de Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil. As esponjas foram obtidas através de mergulho autônomo, realizado no Parque Estadual Marinho " Pedra da Risca do Meio" . No laboratório, os poríferos foram identificados e os crustáceos retirados e etiquetados de acordo com a esponja em que foram encontrados. Nove espécies de esponjas foram coletadas e 14 espécies de crustáceos identificadas. Os Crustáceos da família Alpheidae foram os mais representativos, com seis espécies, seguidos pelos decápodos das famílias Mithracidae e Porcellanidae, com duas espécies e Palaemonidae, Pilumnidae, Pseudorhombilidae e Xanthidae, com uma espécie. A partir do presente registro, as espécies Nanoplax xanthiformis (A. Milne Edwards, 1880), Synalpheus hemphilli Coutière, 1909, S. minus (Say, 1818), S. sanctithomae Coutière, 1909 e Petrolisthes rosariensis Werding, 1978 têm sua distribuição aumentada no litoral brasileiro.

Brachyuran crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) associated with the green sponge Amphimedon viridis (Demospongiae) from Itaguá Beach, south-eastern coast of Brazil

“…These observations agree with those of previous investigations along the Brazilian coast (see Ribeiro et al, 2003;Bezerra & Coelho, 2006). The superfamilies Majoidea and Pilumnoidea are the most common groups that occur on sponge banks, which seems to reflect the affinity between these animals in symbiosis, as reported previously by Bezerra & Coelho (2006).…”

“…Pinheiro et al, 1997) and the bryozoan Schizoporella unicornis (cf. Mantelatto & Souza-Carey, 1998), where 5 and 20 crab species were found, respectively; as well as for other sponge banks along the Brazilian coast, as reported by Duarte & Nalesso (1996) and Bezerra & Coelho (2006), who found 9 and 6 brachyuran species, respectively. However, this greater richness is due mainly to a few abundant species.…”

“…Sponges may be inhabited by a wide diversity of invertebrates, including decapod crustaceans, as reported by Klitgaard (1995), Duarte & Nalesso (1996), Caruso et al (2005), and Bezerra & Coelho (2006).…”

“…Decapods can be found associated with many other marine species belonging to several phyla, including Porifera (cf. Duarte & Nalesso, 1996;Ribeiro et al, 2003;Bezerra & Coelho, 2006), Cnidaria (cf. Pérez et al, 2005), Polychaeta (cf.…”

Decapod crustaceans on dead coral from reef areas on the coast of Bahia, Brazil

“…These perforations resemble the sieve pores or plates such as those observed in the habitats of endolithic alpheids, including A. simus in the Caribbean (Cortes, 1985;Fischer and Meyer, 1985;Kropp, 1987;Werding, 1990). By means of these plates, the shrimp communicate with the environment outside their habitation, extending the second chelate pereopods through the perforations to pick up debris and take it into the galleries (Kropp, 1987;Werding, 1990 (Christoffersen, 1979;1998;Bezerra and Coelho, 2006). The eastern Pacific records correspond to S. digueti Coutière, 1909 (which also corresponds to multiple species) (A.…”