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Decapoda - Caridea - Palaemonidae - Palaemon

Palaemon northropi (Rankin, 1898)

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World Distribution
Chace (1972: 21) - Bermudas and Florida to Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil, littoral.
(Fransen 2023, Zootaxa) - widely distributed in the western Atlantic from Bermuda to Uruguay in the intertidal to about 5 m depth (De Grave & Anker 2017; Poupin 2018).

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

Vertical range : Intertidal - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: VGI (St Croix), Lesser Antilles, ICA (Guadeloupe, Martinique), IOV (Cubagua, Los Roques, Curaçao). 0-1 m. WA.
Palaemon affinis - Schmitt, 1924b: 72, Curaçao [coll. C.J. van der Horst, 1920]. - Schmitt, 1935: 160, Curaçao - Not P. affinis H. Milne Edwards, 1837 = P. northropi, cf. Holthuis, 1952: 192.
Palaemon (Palaeander) northropi - Holthuis, 1952: 192, pl. 47, fig. a-l, St Croix, Cubagua, Curaçao [R/V Velero III for Cubagua]. - Chace, 1972: 21, Guadeloupe [sandy mud flat in the vicinity of Mangrove]. - Rodríguez, 1980: 128, Cubagua [from Holthuis, 1952]. - Carvacho, 1982: 16, Martinique. - Rodríguez, 1986, tab. 2, Los Roques. - Hernández-Ávila et al., 2007: tab. 1, Cubagua.

Palaemon northropi - Fransen, 2023, Zootaxa: 26, Curaçao, Sint Maarten.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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