Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Neopisosoma
| Neopisosoma angustifrons (Benedict, 1901) |
World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - Western Atlantic 0-Shallow - Fla, GMx, Bah, Antil, Carib–Ven. Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe). Haig (1962: 181) - This species is restricted to the Caribbean, and was previously reported from Guadeloupe, Curaçao, Bonaire, Trinidad, Isla La Tortuga, and Isla Cubagua. It is now recorded from the Virgin Islands - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014: 10, tab. 2 Zoosystema, Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, ICA (Saba, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba).
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-1 m
Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St John), ICA (St Martin, Saba, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Trinidad), IOV (Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). 0-1 m. WA.
Pisosoma angustifrons Benedict, 1901: 135, Trinidad [Type locality, R/V Albatross collection]. - Schmitt, 1924b: 74, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Schmitt, 1936: 374, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930]. - Monod, 1939: 559, Guadeloupe. - Haig, 1956 : 15, Cubagua [coll. R/V Velero III, 1939]. - Haig, 1962: 181, St John [coll. Th. Mortensen, 1906], Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Cubagua, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao.
Neopisosoma angustifrons - Rodríguez, 1980: 214, Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao. - Lira, 1997, tab. 4, Margarita. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga [From literature]. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua. - Lira et al., 2012, tab. 1, Tortuga. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014: 10, tab. 2, St John, Saba, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Margarita, Cubagua, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba [Guadeloupe from Karubenthos 2012, 1 M 3.2x3.6 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-5588, st. GM08, 1 m, lot JL400].
Neopisosoma angustifrons - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 13/04/2012, UF32032, photo dSTM_4898; UF32030, photo dSTM_4948; UF32031, photo dSTM_4953.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database