Decapoda - Axiidea - Axiidae - Eiconaxius

Eiconaxius antillensis (Bouvier, 1905)



World Distribution
Felder et al. (2009) - 161-1065 m. GMx off Yuc, Carib
Poore & Dworschak (2018, MMV) - Monserrat, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Caribbean Sea, W Atlantic, S. of Jamaica; 432–1030 m.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with sponges

Vertical range : Deep (more than 100 m) - Min-Max observed: 161-1065 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: Gulf of Mexico, off Yucatan, Caribbean Sea. Lesser Antilles, ICA (Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Barbados). 161-1065 m. WA.
Eiconaxius crist-galli antillensis Bouvier, 1905: 803, Antilles [R/V Blake].
Axius (Eiconaxius) crista-galli antillensis - Bouvier, 1925: 456, Montserrat, Barbados [R/V Blake, st. 154, 298 brasses, 'Montana' sic; st. 281, 288 brasses, Barbados].
Eiconaxius ?antillensis - Poupin & Corbari, 2016: 32, Guadeloupe. - Poupin, 2018: 132, Guadeloupe (same) - In part, only photo of specimen MNHN-IU-2013-18924 (others photos MNHN-IU-2013-18871 and probably 19129, not seen by Poore & Dworschak (2018) are E. caribbaeus).
Eiconaxius antillensis - Poore & Dworschak, 2018, MMV: 106, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Barbados [Syntypes. Off Montana, Monserrat, 16.7°N, 62.2°W, 545 m, Blake stn 154, MCZ CRU-11946 (male, 6.1 mm). Barbados, 12.9°N, 59.6°W, 527 m, Blake stn 281, MCZ CRU-11947 (ovigerous female, 6.7 mm). Guadeloupe, N of Grande Terre, 16°37'N, 61°31'W, 432–482 m (KARUBENTHOS stn DW4550), MNHN IU-2016-8456 (ovigerous female, 6.3 mm), MNHN IU-2018-106 (3 females, 5.8–7.1 mm), MNHN IU-2013-18924 (2 males, 4.3, 6.7 mm), NMV J71649 (ovigerous female, 7.6 mm). NMV J71655 (4 females, 5.3–7.3 mm).E of Guadeloupe, 16.55°N, 61.62°W, 466–585 m (Pillsbury stn P994), USNM 1081088 (3 specimens, examined by C.C. Tudge)].
Eiconaxius antillensis - Kou et al., 2020 (Frontiers in Marine Science), tab. 1 - Guadeloupe, KARUBENTHOS 2015 stn DW4550

Comment(s) on data
Eiconaxius Bate, 1888 is a genus of axiid shrimps exclusively associated with deep-sea hexactinellid sponges

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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