Lysmata, Risso, 1816

Sampling of Lysmata shrimps

Sampling was accomplished by artisanal collectors who catch ornamental marine organisms.The shrimps were removed from areas near the Queimadas Area of Relevant Ecological Interest (AREI) ( Fig. 1 View Figure 1 ) by free divers who collected the shrimps using a hand net from a small rocky formation with biogenic substrate at 6 to 12 m deep (C.H.A. Marques, artisanal fisherman, personal communication). The collection information and the shrimps were voluntarily transferred to one of us (AC-B) to be used in the present study.The sampled specimens were individually stored in plastic bags, kept in insulated boxes with ice and transported to the laboratory. Individuals were identified according to an identification key ( Pachelle et al., 2020) and deposited in the carcinological collection of the Museum of Zoology at the University of São Paulo (MZUSP).