Decapoda - Caridea - Lysmatidae - Ligur

Ligur ensiferus (Risso, 1816)



World Distribution
Crosnier (1976 : 231) - Worldwide. Atlantic, Mediterranea, Indo-west Pacific. 330 à 860 m. Include, Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe, Martinique), Maldives, Réunion, Polynésie française (Poupin, BD Internet).

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Deep (more than 100 m) - Min-Max observed: 290-770 m

Réunion data
Ligur ensiferus - Crosnier, 1976 : 231 (Réunion, coll. P. Guézé, Saint Paul, casier 420 m, 1/03/1973, MNHN).

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Ligur ensiferus - Poupin et al., 1990: 15 (French Polynesia; coll. Frv Marara, fr). - Poupin, 1996b: 6, pl. 2d (Gambier, Maria, Raevavae, Rapa, Rurutu; 290-380m); 1998: 24 (Checklist).
Ligur ensiferus - Ditter et al., 2020 (JCB, tab. 1) - (Guadeloupe indicated in error), MNHN-IU-2012-1000, French Polynesia, Raevavae in MNHN collection (not Guadeloupe).

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: Lesser Antilles, ICA (Guadeloupe, Martinique). 290-770 m. Pantropical.
Ligur ensiferus - Paulmier, 1993: 13, Martinique [Trap, 770 m]. - Paulmier & Gervain, 1994: 10, tab. 2, Martinique [R/V Polka, deep trap]. - Poupin, 1994: 20, Guadeloupe [R/V Polka, 310-560 m, det. A. Crosnier (MNHN)]. - De Grave et al., 2014, tab. 1, Zoologica Scripta, Guadeloupe [MNHN IU-2013-7206].

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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