Check List 13(2): e19662, doi: 10.15560/13.2.2060
First record of Potimirim potimirim (Müller, 1881) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae) from Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil
Alex Barbosa de Moraes‡, Daniele Cosme Soares de Moraes‡, Carlos Eduardo Rocha Duarte Alencar‡, Willianilson Pessoa da Silva‡, Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais Freire‡‡ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Corresponding author: Alex Moraes ( alex.radicais@gmail.com ) © 2017 Alex Moraes, Daniele Soares de Moraes, Carlos Alencar, Willianilson Silva, Fúlvio Freire. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Moraes A, Silva W, Soares de Moraes D, Alencar C, Freire F (2017) First record of Potimirim potimirim (Müller, 1881) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae) from Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil. Check List 13(2): 2060. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.2.2060 |  |
Abstract
Potimirim potimirim (Müller, 1881), a species of coastal freshwater shrimp, is recorded for the first time from the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern of Brazil, where it was collected in a small tributary of the Potengi River. This record extends the distribution of this species about 220 km north along Brazilian coast. New records, such as this, reinforce the need for greater research efforts in the northeastern freshwater ecosystems of Brazil to provide better understand the region’s biodiversity and establish better parameters for conservation actions.
Keywords
Neotropics; Caridea; freshwater shrimp; coastal basins; range extension; Northeastern Caatinga and Coastal Drainages ecoregion