Annotated checklist and bibliography of shrimps, lobsters, crabs and their allies (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (Argentina and Uruguay)

SPIVAK EDUARDO; LOVRICH GUSTAVO; FARIAS NAHUEL; LUPPI TOMAS; OCAMPO EMILIANO

Frente Marítimo

CTMFM

Lugar: Montevideo; Año: 2019 vol. 26 p. 1 - 178

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Twenty seven years ago, the Comisión Técnica Mixta del Frente Marítimo published a catalogue of marine decapod and stomatopod crustaceans registered in coasts,continental shelf and slope, and deep waters of Argentina (Boschi et al., 1992), that included 93 species of decapods. Later, a list of decapods ofUruguay appeared with 107 marine and estuarine species (Zolessi and Philippi, 1995). Since then, the acknowledgement of the importance of biodiversity for the human kind and the many processes affecting it, such as the growing ratesof biological invasions and global climate change, make necessary to review previous knowledge on local biodiversity. Moreover, the incresinguse of molecular techniques in taxonomic revisions have unveiled the existence of misidentifications, cryptic species and species complexin numbers that significantly alter our previous considerations on species richness at the local and regional scales. The present catalogue includes the addition and removal of species and an actualization of the published bibliography related with them. The study area comprises estuaries and marine waters of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean in front of Uruguay and Argentina (33-60ºS), including the coasts, continental shelf and slope, the contiguous abysal plains, the Malvinas, Georgias del Sur and Sandwich del Sur Islands and the Scotia Sea.