Decapoda - Caridea - Palaemonidae - Bathymenes (?)

Bathymenes (?) sp. nov. (?) pre-det. X. Li, 2015



World Distribution
Lesser Antilles, ICA (?Guadeloupe) - 362-367 m.

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

Vertical range : Deep (more than 100 m) - Min-Max observed: 362-367 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: ICA (?Guadeloupe). 362-367 m. ?Only/ICA.
Bathymenes ? - Guadeloupe (first record?), Karubenthos 2 2015, pre-det. X. Li from photo [Mail August, 2015: should be a Bathymenes sp. (covered the Periclimenes alcocki group). Because it looks like several species of the genus with its landscopic morphology and colouration pattern, I am not sure which one it belonging, maybe a new species], st. CP4532, 11 June 2015, 16°30.06'N, 61°37.54'W, 367-362 m, MNHN-IU-2013-18862.
Comment: Bathymenes Kou, Li & Bruce, 2015, described in Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, includes 15 Indo-West Pacific and Eastern Pacific species, distributed between 187-824 m. This would be the first Atlantic record for this group, if genus is confirmed.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database