The marine palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea, Deapoda, Caridea) of the Dutch Caribbean
Author
Fransen, Charles H. J. M.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-12-15
5387
1
1
127
https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5387.1.1/52482
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5387.1.1
1175-5334
0AD29F74-D349-4E12-8CA4-310275A847B3
Neopontonides beaufortensis
(
Borradaile, 1920
)
Neopontonides beaufortensis
—
Criales 1980: 74
(
Curaçao
).
Ecology.
Associated with octocorals of the genus
Leptogorgia virgulata
(Lamarck, 1815)
, and
Eunicea tourneforti
Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
(
Williams 1984
).
Distribution
. Known from scattered localities in the tropical western Atlantic from North Carolina to
Antigua
and
St. Lucia
and Los Roques,
Venezuela
, and
Curaçao
; occuring in depths between 0 and
10 m
(
Chace 1972
;
Williams 1984
;
De Grave & Anker 2017
;
Poupin 2018
).