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.