Decapod crustacean associations with scyphozoan jellyfish (Rhizostomeae: Pelagiidae) in the Southeastern Brazilian coast

• Autor(a) principal: Lemos Goncalves, Geslaine Rafaela [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Wolf, Milena Regina [UNESP], Costa, Rogerio Caetano da [UNESP], Castilho, Antonio Leao [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13199-016-0395-x; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/161836
• topic: Brachyura; Crab; Caridea; Medusae; Symbiosis; Shrimp

In southeastern Brazil, decapod crustaceans were found living in association with the scyphozoan jellyfish. In total, 2002 specimens of the Scyphozoa Lychnorhiza lucerna were collected of which 511 were associated decapods that were identified as three species of the crab Libinia ferreirae, Libinia spinosa, and one Grapsoidea sp. and two species of caridean shrimps Periclimenes paivai and Leander paulensis. This is the first record of an association between the caridean shrimp L. paulensis and a scyphozoan and the first report of symbioses involving the crabs L. spinosa and Grapsoidea sp. on the Brazilian coast.