Primeiros registros de Brachyura para o litoral de Santa Catarina, Brasil: (Decapoda: Dromiidae, Xanthidae e Inachoididae)

New brachyuran crabs records from Santa Catarina coast, Brazil (Decapoda: Dromiidae, Xanthidae and Inachoididae). Three species were collected, Hypoconcha arcuata, Speocarcinus carolinensis and Pyromaia tuberculata. These records represent a distribution extension for H. arcuata previously cited to São Paulo coast and P. tuberculata to Paraná coast. S. carolinensis had previous records from São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul coasts and now complete the distribution for Santa Catarina state.Os braquiúras se distribuem em todos os oceanos, desde a praia até as grandes profundidades. Existem cerca de 6.793 espécies, sendo que 350 delas ocorrem na costa brasileira (Ng et al. 2008)