Ancinus brasiliensis Lemos de Castro, 1959

Ancinus brasiliensis Lemos de Castro, 1959 View in CoL

( Fig. 25 View Figure 25 )

Ancinus brasiliensis Lemos de Castro, 1959: 215 View in CoL , figs. 1–-8. — Loyola and Silva, 1963: 3, figs. 1–5. — Glynn and Glynn, 1974: 408, figs. 7–10, 11A–C, 12. — Dexter, 1976: 481 (tab. 1). — Loyola and Silva, 1998: 630.

Ancinus depressus View in CoL — Loyola and Silva, 1971: 212, fig. 1. [Not A. depressus ( Say, 1818) View in CoL ].

Type material. Holotype: male, 6.79 mm, MNRJ

6225. Allotype: female, 5.77 mm, MNRJ 6226 View Materials .

Type locality. Ribeira Beach , Mangaratiba Bay ,

RJ, Brazil.

Geographic distribution. Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico (Tampico), Panama (María Chiquita, Shimmey, Ft. San Lorenzo), Costa Rica (Puerto Viejo and Cahuita) and Brazil ( PB, RJ, SP) ( Lemos de Castro, 1959; Glynn and Glynn, 1974; Dexter, 1976; Loyola and Silva, 1998).

Habitat. Sandy bottom, 1.5 m depth ( Lemos de

Castro,1959).

Current systematic position. Ancinus brasiliensis

Lemos de Castro, 1959.

Remarks. The species A. granulatus and A. brasiliensis were considered junior synonyms of Ancinus depressus by Loyola and Silva (1971). Later, Glynn and Glynn (1974) revised the genus Ancinus and considered the three species as valid. Ancinus brasiliensis is currently a valid species and accepted in the World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database ( Boyko et al., 2023).