Nematopaguroides pusillus Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968

Nematopaguroides ? pusillus Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968: 159, figs. 142–146.

Nematopaguroides pusillus .— Coelho & Ramos 1972: 166; Coelho & Santos 1980: 143; Redd et al. 1982: 768, tab. 2; Abele & Kim 1986: 386, figs. i–k; Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1986: 43; Rieger 1998: 417; Melo 1999: 118, figs. 63, 64; Wang & McLaughlin 2000: 956; Coelho et al. 2007: 10, tab. 4; McLaughlin et al. 2010: 31; Nucci & Melo 2011: 35, figs. 1I, 2I, 3I; Lemaitre & Tavares 2015: 489, figs. 19, 20.

Vitória-Trindade Seamounts specimens. Nematopaguroides pusillus Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968: 1 male sl 0.9 (MZUSP 36202), 1 male sl 1.4 mm (MZUSP 16832), Brazil, off Espírito Santo, Vitória-Trindade Seamounts Chain, Davis bank, TAFF MD/55 BRÉSIL 1987, stn 23/ DC 40, 20°39.8’S, 34°41.1’W, M. Tavares coll., 15.v.1987, dredge, 60 m; 1 ovigerous female sl 1.0 mm (MZUSP 36203), Vitória-Trindade Seamounts Chain, Jaseur bank, TAFF MD/55 BRÉSIL 1987, stn 17/ DC 30, 20°26’S, 36°17’W, M. Tavares coll., 15.v.1987, dredge, 60 m.

Comparative material examined. Nematopaguroides fagei Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968: 3 males, 5 ovi- gerous females (MZUSP 15230), Brazil, São Paulo, Laje de Santos, stn 22, 18.v.1961; 2 females (MZUSP 38131), São Paulo, between Ilha da Queimada and Laje de Santos, C. Magenta coll., xii.1998, otter trawl, 30–35 m.

Type locality. Off Cabo de Santo Agostinho, 8°19.5’S, 34°39’W, 75 m, Pernambuco, Brazil .

Distribution. Known only from off southeastern Florida and Brazil (off Pernambuco and Vitória-Trindade Seamounts Chain, off Espírito Santo) from 60 to 81 m.

Remarks. For long time, Nematopaguroides pusillus was only known from the holotype specimen. Much later, 29 specimens inhabiting Oculina reefs from 80 m depth in Florida were attributed to N. pusillus (Reed et al. 1982) . Lemaitre & Tavares (2015) reexamined specimens from Florida and reported on a male specimen from the Vitória- Trindade Seamounts Chain (Davis Bank, 60 m, Fig. 1A). One additional specimen, an ovigerous female, is recorded herein from the VTSC (Jaseur Bank, 60 m, Fig. 1).