Range Description

This species is distributed off the extreme northeastern coast of Brazil (Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, and Pernambuco States) and the Central Atlantic Islands (São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago, Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Trinidad, Cape Verde, Canary, Ascension and Saint Helena) (Vianna 1986, Holthuis 1991, Pinheiro et al. 2003). The type locality of this species is Recife in Pernambuco State, Brazil (Holthuis 1991).