Cystodytes dellechiajei (Della Valle, 1877)

Material examined.

CAGoM-0135, CAGoM-0449, B10, 11 m, 17-06-2015, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez.

Remarks.

This is the only known west Atlantic species of the genus which has been reported from nine countries, both in tropical and subtropical regions (Rocha et al. 2005, 2012). The species is very rare in the southern Gulf of Mexico (Table 1); it has been found in shallow waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico in Florida (Van Name 1945).

Global distribution.

United States (Van Name 1945; Plough 1978); Bermudas (Monniot 1972; Van Name 1902, 1945), Panamá (Collin et al. 2005), Les Saints, Martinique (Gravier 1955), Guyana (Millar 1977), Brazil (Millar 1977; Rocha et al. 2005), Azores (Michaelsen 1923; Monniot 1971; Monniot and Monniot 1994; Monniot 1975), Canary Islands ( Ríos 1985), Senegal (Michaelsen 1915; Monniot 1969; Pérès 1949, 1951; Lafargue and Wahl 1987), Iberic Mediterranean ( López-Legentil and Turon 2005), France (Harant 1927; Harant and Vernières 1933; Lafargue 1970), Italy (Drasche 1883; Brunetti 1994), Philippines (Van Name 1918), and Australia (Michaelsen 1930; Millar 1953; Kott 1990).