Parametopella texensis McKinney, Kalke

Cházaro-Olvera, Sergio, Winfield, Ignacio, Ortiz, Manuel & Álvarez, Fernando, 2002, Peracarid crustaceans from three inlets in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico: new records and range extensions, Zootaxa 123, pp. 1-16 : 8

Parametopella texensis McKinney, Kalke and Holland, 1978

Material Examined: CNCR­20399; number of specimens: 2; CV station; collection date: 01/08/98.

Type locality: Off Galveston Island, Texas coast shelf.

Distribution: Parametopella texensis occurs in the northern Gulf of Mexico off Texas ( McKinney et al., 1978) and the Florida panhandle ( Rakocinski et al., 1993, 1996).

Range extension: This species has previously only been reported from the northern Gulf of Mexico ( McKinney et al. 1978, Rakocinski et al., 1993, 1996). The record of P. texensis at CV inlet, extends its geographic distribution to Veracruz State, Mexico.

Remarks: In the western Gulf of Mexico, this species has been reported to occur between 10 and 18 m depths, with a salinity range of 30 to 36 %o, a temperature range of 15 to 27 °C, and a preference for sandy sediments ( McKinney et al. 1978). The salinity and temperature ranges measured at the collection site in this study were 19 to 27 %o and 28 to 29 °C, respectively.