Paralomis cubensis

Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4), pp. 445-522 : 484-485

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PARALOMIS CUBENSIS View in CoL CHACE, 1939

Type locality: Off north-western Cuba, Harvard- Havanna Expedition , R / V Atlantis sta. 3003, 23°12.3′N, 82°12′W, 439–550 m (from Macpherson, 1988: 97) GoogleMaps .

Known range: Cuba, east of Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and off northern Brazil, 329–730 m ( Macpherson, 1988: 99).

Occurrence at vents or seeps: Gulf of Mexico, Green Canyon (see below).

Material: We are not aware of any existing material from vents or seeps. Sassen et al. (1993) included a photograph of a lithodid from cold seeps within the Green Canyon area (a large offshore drilling area) off Louisiana that is probably this species (see below).

Remarks: According to Chevaldonné & Olu (1996), the photograph of a lithodid from the Green Canyon methane seeps on the upper continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico (off Louisiana) provided by Sassen et al. (1993: fig 5) was subsequently identified as belonging to this species. The crabs were recorded from 620 m among tubeworms and mussels, but material was presumably not collected. Carney (1994) noted that this species is a vagrant (i.e. not usually found associated with vents or seeps).

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References

Carney RS. 1994. Consideration of the oasis analogy for chemosynthetic communities at Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon vents. Geo-Marine Letters 14: 149 - 159.

Chace FA Jr. 1939. Reports on the scientific results of the first Atlantis Expedition to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havanna and Harvard University: preliminary descriptions of one new genus and seventeen new species of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural 13: 31 - 54.

Chevaldonne P, Olu K. 1996. Occurrence of anomuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) in hydrothermal vent and cold-seep communities: a review. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109 (2): 286 - 298.

de Saint Laurent M, Macpherson E. 1997. Une nouvelle espece du genre Paralomis White, 1856, des sources hydrothermales du Sud-ouest Pacifique (Crustacea, Decapoda, Lithodidae). Zoosystema 19 (4): 721 - 727.

Macpherson E. 1988. Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean. Monografias de Zoologia Marina 2: 9 - 153.

Sassen R, Brooks JM, MacDonal IR, Kennicutt MC II, Guinasso NL Jr, Requejo AG. 1993. Association of oil seeps and chemosynthetic communities with oil discoveries, upper continental slope, Gulf of Mexico. Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 43: 349 - 355.