Palaemon northropi ( Rankin, 1898 )

Fransen, Charles H. J. M., 2023, The marine palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea, Deapoda, Caridea) of the Dutch Caribbean, Zootaxa 5387 (1), pp. 1-127 : 26

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scientific name	Palaemon northropi ( Rankin, 1898 )
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Palaemon northropi ( Rankin, 1898) View in CoL

Palaemon affinis View in CoL — Schmitt 1924: 72 ( Curaçao); Schmitt 1935: 160 ( Curaçao). Not P. affinis H. Milne Edwards, 1837 View in CoL . Palaemon (Paleander) northropi View in CoL — Holthuis 1952: 192 ( Curaçao).

Material examined. Curaçao: RMNH. CRUS.D.27912: 3 non-ovigerous females, pocl. 3.0, 3.7, 4.4 mm; 1 male, pocl. 4.1 mm; Enoch, 02.ii.1949, littoral, mud, Rhizophora sp. , collected by P. Wagenaar Hummelinck (fcn. 1028A) .

Sint Maarten. RMNH. CRUS.D.28683: many (>100) specimens ; W of Philipsburg , 17.ii.1957, depth 0–1 m, freshwater pond, collected by L.B. Holthuis.

Ecology. Occurs in a wide range of habitats ( De Grave & Anker 2017).

Distribution. Common and widely distributed in the western Atlantic from Bermuda to Uruguay in the intertidal to about 5 m depth ( De Grave &Anker 2017; Poupin 2018). Previous records from Curaçao by Schmitt (1924, 1935, as Palaemon affinis ), and Holthuis (1952). The species is here recorded for the first time from Sint Maarten.