Decapoda - Anomura - Porcellanidae - Neopisosoma

Neopisosoma curacaoense (Schmitt, 1924)

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World Distribution
Haig (1956:15) - Curaçao, Puerto Rico, Bonaire, Aruba, Venezuela (I. Tortugas) - Poupin & Lemaitre (Zoosystema, in prep. 2013) - Virgin Islands; ICA - Saba, St Martin, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Grenada; IOV - Cubagua, La Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Thomas, St Croix), ICA (Saba, St Martin, St Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Grenada), IOV (Cubagua, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba). 0-5 m. WA.
Pisosoma curaçaoensis Schmitt, 1924b: 74, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Schmitt, 1935: 188, Curaçao. - Schmitt, 1936: 374, Bonaire [coll. P. Hummelinck, 1930].
Neopisosoma curacaoense - Haig, 1956 : 15, Tortuga, Aruba [coll. R/V Velero III, 1939]. - Haig, 1962: 181, St Thomas, St Croix, Tortuga, Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba [In part coll. Th. Mortensen, 1906]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 214, Tortuga, Curaçao, Bonaire. - Lira, 2004: tab. 1, Tortuga [From literature]. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: appendix, Cubagua [From literature]. - Lira et al., 2012, tab. 1, Tortuga. - Poupin & Lemaitre, 2014: 10, Guadeloupe [Karubenthos 2012, 1 F 4.2x4.0 mm, MNHN-IU-2013-5359, st. GM08, 1 m, lot JL399].
Neopisosoma curacaoense - Saint Martin, RNN Inventory 13/04/2012, UF32029, photo dSTM_4905; UF32028, photo dSTM_4961; UF32027, photo dSTM_4963.


Ferreira & Anker (2021: 138, Zootaxa). Figure 87 A, B, Neopisosoma neglectum Werding, 1986, male (A) and female (B) from Saint Martin (FLMNH UF 32006); C, D, Neopisosoma curacaoense (Schmitt, 1924), male © and female (D) from Saint Martin (FLMNH UF 32027);

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