Gnathophylloides mineri Schmitt 1933

• Main Author: Fransen, Charles H. J. M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Palaemonidae; Gnathophylloides; Gnathophylloides mineri; sami
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10699010; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B787A1FFF3026AFF5FF82CFEDDF831

Gnathophylloides mineri Schmitt, 1933 (Fig. 5, video 4) Gnathophylloides mineri — Brinkmann & Fransen 2016: 438 (Curaçao); Faasse 2016: 52 (Sint Eustatius); Poupin 2018: 106 (Sint Maarten). Material examined. Curaçao : RMNH. CRUS.D.27600: 1 male pocl. 1.2 mm; Piscaderabaai, Boca, 05.i.1964, depth 1–2 m, san, gravel, collected by P.Wagenaar Hummelinck no. 1457. RMNH. CRUS.D.58081: 1 ovigerous female; stn COA. 01, Hilton Reef, 12°07′18.44″N 68°58′10.23″W, 07.xi.2013, snorkeling, depth 1 m, on Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816), collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen (photo COA.01 196–198, 206–219). RMNH. CRUS.D.58082: many specimens; stn COA.03, W Piscadera Baai, 12°07′21.90″N 68°58′13.54″W, 02.xi.2013, depth 1 m, on Tripneustes ventricosus (Lamarck, 1816), collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen. RMNH. CRUS.D.58083: 6 specimens; stn COA. 14, Playa Boka Sami, 12°08′51.40″N 68°59′55.50″W, 05.xi.2013, scuba diving, depth 5 m, on L. variegatus collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen (photo COA.14 128–132). RMNH. CRUS.D.58084: 11 specimens; stn CF19B-3, Cas Abou, 19.vi.2017, scuba diving, depth 3 m, on T. ventricosus , collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen (video 4). Bonaire : RMNH. CRUS.D.58085: 13 specimens; stn BON.16, Tailor Made, 12°13.407′N 068°24.223′W, 29.x.2019, snorkeling, depth 2 m, on T. ventricosus , collected by Werner de Gier. RMNH. CRUS.D.58086: 3 specimens; stn BON.18, Red Slave, 12°01.605′N, 068°15.079′W, 28.x.2019, snorkeling, depth 2 m, on T. ventricosus , collected by Werner de Gier. Ecology . Symbiont of shallow water regular sea urchins. In the western Atlantic recorded from L. variegatus and T. ventricosus (Marciá & Robinson 2009; Tavares et al . 2017; Vera-Caripe et al . 2017). Distribution . Disjunct circumtropical, being absent from the central and eastern Atlantic, widely distributed in the western Atlantic from Florida south to Bahia, Espírito Santo and Trindade Island, Brazil (Chace 1956; De Grave & Anker 2017; Vera-Caripe et al . 2017; Tavares et al . 2017; Poupin 2018). This is the first record of the ...