Decapoda - Dendrobranchiata - Penaeidae - Penaeus

Penaeus subtilis (Pérez Farfante, 1967)



World Distribution
Chace (1972: 8), Pérez Farfante & Kensley (1997: 79) - Western Atlantic, Cuba, Honduras to Brazil, including Antilles, and Caribbean coast of south America (Colombia).
(Takeda, 1983; Sasaki, 2022) - 1 to 190-192 m.

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

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-192 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI St John, St Croix), Lesser Antilles, ICA (St Martin, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia, Trinidad), IOV (Los Roques, Margarita, Curaçao, Aruba). 1-192 m. WA.
Penaeus ?aztecus - Chace, 1956: 146, Los Roques [uncertain det. of juveniles; arbitrarily placed herein under P. subtilis].
Penaeus aztecus Ives - Holthuis, 1959: 76, St Martin [Museum Philadelphia, coll. Van Rijgersma]. - ?Not Farfantepenaeus aztecus (Ives, 1891) fide Pérez Farfante (1969, fig. 49).
Penaeus aztecus subtilis Pérez Farfante, 1967: 87, St John, St Croix, Antigua, St Lucia, Trinidad, Curaçao, Aruba. - Chace & Hobbs, 1969: 52, St John, St Croix, Antigua, St Lucia, Trinidad. - Vaslet et al., 2013: 245, annexe 3, Guadeloupe [from Bourgeois-Lebel 1982, not seen].
Penaeus (Melicertus) aztecus subtilis - Chace, 1972: 8, Antigua. - Lévêque, 1974: 45, Guadeloupe [det. Pérez Farfante].
Farfantepenaeus subtilis - Pérez Farfante & Kensley, 1997: 79, 'Antilles'.
Penaeus subtilis - Lira et al., 2017a: 34, Margarita, Los Roques.

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Penaeus aztecus subtilis Pérez Farfante, 1967: 87, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá [R/V Coquette, R/V Oregon].

Penaeus subtilis – Takeda, 1983: 36, Suriname, French Guiana [21–90 m]. – D'Incao,1998: 314, Brazil Amapá. – Le Loeuff & Cosel, 2000: 25, annexe 1, French Guiana. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana, [R/V Hermano Gines, July–October 2014, 30–800 m].

Farfantepenaeus subtilis – Silva et al., 2002: 16, Brazil Amapá [R/V Almirante Paulo Moreira; 3°45' N, 50°10' W, 05/10/1996, 75 m]. — Coelho et al., 2006: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Tavares & Guzmão, 2016: 507, French Guiana [1 female, off French Guiana, 66 m, 2 May 1969, R/V Oregon II, st. 10559, 6°54’ N, 53’ W. USNM 1192295]. — Cintra et al., 2017: tab. 1-6, Brazil Amapá [bycatch of shrimp fisheries, 0-4°N, 27–47 m]. — Silva et al., 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.

Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 1–192 m.

Comment(s) on data
This species is classified herein under Penaeus s.l. (instead of Farfantepenaeus Burukovsky, 1997) following the morphological and the molecular data presented by Ma et al. (2011).

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