Pontonia mexicana Guérin-Méneville, 1855

Fransen, Charles H. J. M., 2023, The marine palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea, Deapoda, Caridea) of the Dutch Caribbean, Zootaxa 5387 (1), pp. 1-127 : 104

Pontonia mexicana Guérin-Méneville, 1855

( Fig. 69 , video 16)

Pontonia grayi Rathbun, 1901: 122 ; Schmitt 1924: 72 ( Curaçao).

Pontonia mexicana — Holthuis 1951b: 130 ( Bonaire, Curaçao); Fransen 2002: 132 ( Bonaire, Curaçao).

Material examined. Curaçao: RMNH. CRUS.D.58265: 2 specimens; stn COA. 18, Playa Forti, 12°21′58.10″N 69°09′13.50″W, 01.xi.2013, depth 15 m, scuba diving, in Pinna carnea Gmelin, 1791 (photo B. T. Reijnen 015), collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen (photo B. T. Reijnen, 007, 009–014) . RMNH. CRUS.D.58266: 1 male, pocl. 4.5 mm; stn CF19A-3, Tugboat , 19.vi.2017, depth 5 m, scuba diving, in Pinna sp. , collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen (video 16) .

Ecology. Symbiont of large bivalve mollusk species: P. carnea ; P. rigida (Lightfoot, 1786) ; and Atrina seminuda (Lamarck, 1819) ( Fransen 2002, De Grave & Anker 2017).

Distribution. Known from the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic from Florida south to the Brazilian Island Trinidade in depths between 0 and 10 m ( Fransen 2002, De Grave & Anker 2017).

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FIGURE 69. Pontonia mexicana Guérin-Méneville, 1855. Stn CAO.18, Curaçao, Playa Forti, 12°21′58.10″N 69°09′13.50″W, 1.xi.2013, depth 15 m, from Pinna (Pinna) carnea Gmelin, 1791. (Photograph by B.T. Reijnen.)