Taxon classification Animalia Decapoda Chirostylidae

Uroptychus uncifer (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880)

Material examined.

COBERPES stn. A6, 1 ovigerous female.

Remarks.

We collected only one ovigerous female in summer at 1144 m. (CL 12.6 mm); that constitutes the first record in the sector SSW Gulf of Mexico (off Carmen y Machona Lagoon, Tabasco) This single record increases 654 m the reported bathymetric range (155 to 490 m, Baba et al. 2008; Felder et al. 2009).