Tozeuma carolinense Kingsley, 1878

Herrera-Barquín, Hiram, Leija-Tristán, Antonio & Favela-Lara, Susana, 2018, Updated checklist of estuarine caridean shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) from the southern region of Laguna Madre, Tamaulipas, Mexico, with new records and a key for taxonomic identification, Check List 14 (2), pp. 479-494 : 487

Tozeuma carolinense Kingsley, 1878

Material examined (415 specimens). In seagrass beds. 8 March 2014 (UANL-FCB-C20-8121), S1(24°29.1000ʹ N, 097°41.4500ʹ W), 2 specimens (♀); 8 March 2014 ( UANL- FCB-C 20-8128), S2 (24°29.1833ʹ N, 097° 41.9667ʹ W), 35 specimens (14♀, 21♂); 9 March 2014 (UANL-FCB- C20-8132), S3 (24°29.2667ʹ N, 097° 45.9833ʹ W), 67 specimens (33♀, 34♂); 5 August 2015 (UANL-FCB- C20-8138), S2 (same point), 73 specimens (44♀, 29♂); 5 August 2014 (UANL-FCB-C20-8150), S3 (same point), 238 specimens (193♀; 45♂); 17 February 2017 ( UANL- FCB-C 20-8156), S2 (same point), 4 specimens (2♀, 2♂); 18 February 2017 (UANL-FCB-C20-8160), S3 (same point), 14 specimens (12♀, 2♂).

Distribution. From Massachusetts, USA, and Bermuda, to Sao Paulo, Brazil including Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Isla Santa Lucía and Curaçao ( Chace 1972, Markham and McDermott 1980, Williams 1984, Hernández et al. 1996, Martínez-Iglesias et al. 1996, Christoffersen 1998); in Mexico from Tamaulipas (Laguna Madre, see references below) to Quintana Roo ( Chace 1972, Román-Contreras 1988, Markham et al. 1990, Hernández et al. 1996).

Previous records from Laguna Madre. Hildebrand (1958); Barba-Macías (1999); Rodríguez et al. (2000); as Tozeuma carolinensis by Leija-Tristán et al. (2000); in Laguna Madre of Texas by Sheridan and Minello (2003); Corpus Christi Bay and adjacent zones ( Sheridan 2004); Barba-Macías et al. (2005); Barba-Macías (2012).

Remarks. Our material agreed with the description in Abele and Kim (1986). This species is recognized by its elongated and dorsally unarmed rostrum.