Hartmanodes nyei ( Shoemaker, 1933 )

Cházaro-Olvera, Sergio, Winfield, Ignacio, Ortiz, Manuel & Álvarez, Fernando, 2002, Peracarid crustaceans from three inlets in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico: new records and range extensions, Zootaxa 123, pp. 1-16 : 7

Hartmanodes nyei ( Shoemaker, 1933)

Material Examined: CNCR­20396; number of specimens: 1, 1; CV station, collection date: 01/08/98.

Type locality: Key West, Florida.

Distribution: This species has been reported from southern Florida ( Shoemaker, 1933; Thomas, 1993); the Gulf of Mexico ( McKinney, 1977; Thomas, 1993, Rakocinski et al., 1993, 1996); Cuba ( Ortiz, 1978); Belize ( Thomas, 1993); Brazil ( Shoemaker, 1933); Uruguay, Argentina ( Barnard & Barnard, 1990); southern California and the Gulf of California ( Barnard, 1962).

Range extension: Within the Gulf of Mexico, this species has been recorded from the Florida Keys ( Shoemaker, 1933; Thomas, 1993), the northern Gulf of Mexico at Perdido Key, Florida ( Rakocinski et al., 1993, 1996) and from southern Texas ( McKinney, 1977; Thomas, 1993)). The presence of this species at CV inlet extends its geographic distribution within the Gulf to Veracruz State, Mexico.

Remarks: Hartmanodes nyei constitutes one of the main food components of pleuronectiform fishes from the continental shelf of South Brazil and North Uruguay ( Wakabara et al., 1982). The depth range at which it occurs is 1 to 166 m and it has a preference for muddy sands ( Wakabara et al., 1991).

The salinity and temperature ranges measured at the collection site were 19 to 27 %o and 28 to 29 °C, respectively.