Aroui americana Lowry & Stoddart, 1997

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Aroui americana Lowry & Stoddart, 1997 Figure 1

Aroui americana Lowry & Stoddart, 1997: 124, figs 60-62. - Escobar-Briones and Winfield 2003: 42. - Ortíz et al. 2007: 513. - Martín et al. 2013: 1715 (appendix 1).

Type material.

Holotype, female, 5 mm (with oostegite buds), USNM 282716. Paratypes: 1 male, 5.4 mm, USNM 282717; 1 male AM P.45339.

Type locality.

Gulf of Mexico, south of Mobile Bay (approximately 29°12'N, 85°07'W), from stomach of a Blackfin grenadier, Coelorinchus caribbaeus (Goode & Bean, 1885), 200 m depth.

Depth range.

95-200 m ( Lowry and Stoddart 1997). The deeper record represents animals taken from fish stomachs.

Distribution.

Argentina: east of Bahía Unión ( Lowry and Stoddart 1997). United States: Gulf of Mexico, south of Mobile Bay and south-east of the Mississippi River Delta ( Lowry and Stoddart 1997).

Ecology.

Known from sandy bottoms, but also a scavenger by implication ( Lowry and Stoddart 1997).

Discussion.

This species was described from three specimens: two from fish stomachs in the Gulf of Mexico and in the collections of the USNM, and another specimen taken in a trawl off Argentina by the USS Albatross in the collections of the AM. No new material has been recorded in the literature since its description.