Decapoda - Caridea - Palaemonidae - Rapipontonia

Rapipontonia platalea (Holthuis, 1951)



World Distribution
In Hale & De Grave: Cape Verde, Guinea, Tobago (15 m).

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with corals (obligate)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-15 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: ICA (Tobago), IOV (Curaçao). 1-15 m. ATL.
Periclimenes platalea - Hale & De Grave, 2007: 1019, Tobago.

Rapipontonia platalea - Fransen, 2023, Zootaxa: 110, Curaçao [recorded from Antipatharia, Hydrozoa and Alcyonarian].

Comment(s) on data
In Hale & De Grave (2007) - Associated with Antipathes spp. Cnidaria, Antipatharia), Leptogorgia spp. (Cnidaria, Gorgonacea) and hydroid (Gymnagium longicauda), 15 m.

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