First record of the Sculptured Mitten Lobster Parribacus antarcticus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae) from the Cabo Verde Islands (eastern Atlantic)

• Main Authors: Freitas, Rui, Wirtz, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade dos Açores 2019
• Subjects: Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://revistas.rcaap.pt/arquipelago/article/view/19843

The lobster genus Parribacus contains six living and one fossil species (Holthuis 1991; Chan 2010; Nyborg & Garassino 2017). In the Atlantic Ocean, only one living species is known, Parribacus antarcticus (Lund, 1793); it has been recorded in the western Atlantic from Florida to Brazil and recently also from the mid-Atlantic island of Ascension (Brown et al. 2016). It is nocturnal and is often found hiding in crevices during daytime (Holthuis 1991). We here note the presence of Parribacus antarcticus at the Cabo Verde Islands, the first record of the species from the eastern Atlantic.