Decapoda - Dendrobranchiata - Penaeidae - Metapenaeopsis

Metapenaeopsis smithi (Schmitt, 1924a)



World Distribution
Distribution: Bermudas and southeastern Florida to Curaçao, mostly near islands; western Caribbean; Lesser Antilles (Chace, 1972). - Pérez Farfante & Kensley (1997: 108) West Indies, Caribbean coast of central America.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-366 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix, St John, Peter Is., Virgin Gorda), Lesser Antilles, ICA (St Kitts, Barbuda, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Barbados, St Vincent), IOV (Cubagua, Los Roques, Bonaire, Curaçao). 1-366 m. WA.
Penaeopsis smithi Schmitt, 1924b: 62, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Schmitt, 1924a:68, Barbados [Pelican Island]. - Schmitt, 1936: 364, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930].
Metapenaeopsis smithi - Pérez Farfante, 1971: 29, St Thomas [Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition], St Croix, St John, Peter Is., St Kitts (St Christopher), St Vincent (Grenadines), Los Roques, Curaçao [R/V Oregon]. - Chace, 1972: 8, Virgin Gorda, Barbuda, Antigua, Curaçao. - Rodríguez, 1980: 62, Los Roques. - Rodríguez, 1986, tab. 2, Los Roques. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: appendix, Cubagua [From literature]. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen].

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