Lepidonotus variabilis Webster, 1879

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18. Lepidonotus variabilis Webster, 1879

Lepidonotus variabilis Webster, 1879: 205-208, pl. 1: figs 6-11; pl. 2: figs 12-14 (Virginia).- Andrews 1891: 278 (North Carolina; among hydroids and sponges).- Hoagland 1919: 572 (Puerto Rico, 18 m).- Seidler 1924: 70-72.- Treadwell 1939b: 185 (Puerto Rico).- Warren 1942: 45 (Louisiana).- Hartman 1945: 10 (Florida), 1951: 18 (Gulf of Mexico), 1954: 413-414 (Gulf of Mexico).- Behre 1950: 11 (Louisiana).- Pearse and Williams 1951 (North and South Carolina).- Renaud 1956: 3, fig. 2 (Bahamas).- Rioja 1958: 221 (eastern Mexico).- Wells 1961: 247 (North Carolina).- Wells and Gray 1964 (North Carolina).- Ebbs 1966: 493-496, fig. 2a-h (Florida).- Forbes 1966: 278 (Florida; associated with Cryptostrea [as Ostrea] permollis and Stelletta grubii).- Dauer 1973: 193 (Gulf of Mexico; in sponge).- Day 1973: 6 (North Carolina, to 18 m).- Rullier 1974: 20 (Cuba; in sponges).- Gardiner 1976: 86, fig. 1k-n (North Carolina).- MacPhee 1978: 15 (Massachusetts; food of Pseudopleuronectes americanus).- Rodríguez-Gómes 1979: 27 (Caribbean Colombia); 1988 (Caribbean Colombia).- Tagatz et al. 1982: 134 (Alabama).- Ibarzábal 1986: 2 (Cuba, 3 m).- San Martín et al. 1986: 6-7 (Cuba).- Perkins 1998: 85 (Florida).- Dueñas 1999 (Caribbean Colombian).- Baéz and Ardilla 2003: 102 (Caribbean Colombian, 0.2-2 m).- Fauchald et al. 2009: 768 (Gulf of Mexico).- Gobin 2010: 5 (Trinidad and Tobago).

not Lepidonotus variabilis .- Treadwell 1939b: 341. [=Lepidonotus subleavis Verrill, 1874]

Type locality.

Virginia Coast, North American.

Distribution.

Western Atlantic from Massachusetts to Colombia; 0.2-18 m.

Biology.

Associated with the oyster Cryptostrea permollis (Sowerby, 1871), and with the sponge Stelletta grubii Schmidt, 1862. Food of the winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792). Lives among hydroids and sponges.