“…Although paraphyly is observed among clades within Lysmata and it is evidenced by the homoplasy of the short accessory branch, the lineage containing only species bearing a long accessory branch is monophyletic (Baeza, 2010b;Fiedler et al, 2010). Currently, 14 species of Lysmata are known to possess a long accessory branch with more than two articles (hereafter long-branch species), namely L. argentopunctata Wicksten, 2000, L. chica Wicksten, 2000, L. galapagensis Schmitt, 1904, L. holthuisi Anker, Baeza and De Grave, 2009, L. intermedia (Kingsley, 1878, L. jundalini Rhyne, Calado and dos , L. malagasy Ashrafi, Baeza and Duriz, 2021, L. moorei Rathbun, 1901, L. napoleoni De Grave and Anker, 2018, L. nilita Dohrn and Holthuis, 1950, L. seticaudata Risso, 1816, L. ternatensis De Man, 1902, L. trisetacea (Heller, 1861 and L. zacae Armstrong, 1941. Historically, L. intermedia and L. moorei were the only two long-branch species inhabiting the southwestern Atlantic (Christoffersen, 1980(Christoffersen, , 1998Ramos-Porto et al, 1995;Coelho Filho, 2006;Almeida et al, 2007;Santos et al, 2012;Barros-Alves et al, 2015Pachelle et al, 2016Pachelle et al, , 2020. Recently, an individual collected along the coast of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil, was tentatively identified as L. jundalini after detailed morphological analysis, which increases the number of long-branch species in the region (Pachelle et al, 2020).…”