Tuleariocaris neglecta Chace, 1969

Fransen, Charles H. J. M., 2023, The marine palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea, Deapoda, Caridea) of the Dutch Caribbean, Zootaxa 5387 (1), pp. 1-127 : 112

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Tuleariocaris neglecta Chace, 1969 View in CoL

Tuleariocaris neglecta Chace, 1969: 226 View in CoL ( Curaçao).

Material examined. Curaçao: RMNH. CRUS.D.25125: 5 paratypes, 4 males pocl. 1.2, 1.4, 1.9, and 2.0 mm, 1 ovigerous females pocl. 2.5 mm, Piscaderabaai, 24.xii.1956, on Diadema , collected by L.B. Holthuis no. 1015 . Sint Eustatius: RMNH. CRUS.D.28563: 1 non-ovigerous female, pocl. 1.1mm, Lynch Bay , 1.iii.1957, collected by L.B. Holthuis.

Ecology. Associated with several species of sea urchins: Diadema antillarum (Philippi, 1845) , Astropyga magnifica A.H. Clark, 1934 , Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758) , and Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Giribet & Lemer 2014) .

Distribution. Widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical eastern and western Atlantic. Recorded in the western Atlantic from Florida and the northern Gulf of Mexico southwards to Panama and Curaçao in depths between 1–10 m ( Giribet & Lemer 2014; De Grave &Anker 2017; Poupin 2018). Previously recorded from Curaçao by Chace (1969). The species is now recorded for the first time from Sint Eustatius.