Taxon classification Animalia Decapoda Chirostylidae

Gastroptychus spinifer (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880)

Material examined.

BATO stn. 20, 3 males; stn. 32, 1 male; stn. 33, 1 ovigerous female; stn. 34, 2 ovigerous females.

Remarks.

We collected only seven specimens (males CL 13.5-16.2; ovigerous females CL = 21.7-23.5 mm); 299-562.5 m. The ovigerous females distributed deeper (414.5-562.5 m) than males (299.0-311.8 m). These records are the first in the in SSW sector (Bank of Campeche), previous distribution was reported in NNE, NNW, and ESE of the Gulf of Mexico (Felder et al. 2009).