Parametopella texensis McKinney, Kalke and Holland, 1978

Material Examined: CNCR­20399; number of specimens: 2; CV station; collection date: 01/08/98.

Type locality: Off Galveston Island, Texas coast shelf.

Distribution: Parametopella texensis occurs in the northern Gulf of Mexico off Texas (McKinney et al., 1978) and the Florida panhandle (Rakocinski et al., 1993, 1996).

Range extension: This species has previously only been reported from the northern Gulf of Mexico (McKinney et al. 1978, Rakocinski et al., 1993, 1996). The record of P. texensis at CV inlet, extends its geographic distribution to Veracruz State, Mexico.

Remarks: In the western Gulf of Mexico, this species has been reported to occur between 10 and 18 m depths, with a salinity range of 30 to 36 %o, a temperature range of 15 to 27 °C, and a preference for sandy sediments (McKinney et al. 1978). The salinity and temperature ranges measured at the collection site in this study were 19 to 27 %o and 28 to 29 °C, respectively.