Neopontonides chacei, Heard, 1986

Anker, Sammy De Grave and Arthur, 2017, An annotated checklist of marine caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda) of the Caribbean coast of Panama, Nauplius (e 2017015) 25, pp. 1-40 : 27-28

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scientific name	Neopontonides chacei
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Neopontonides chacei View in CoL Heard, 1986

Material examined. Bocas del Toro. 5 spec., Hospital Point , 09°20.016’N 082°13.133’W, 10 m, on unidentified gorgonian, leg. S. De Grave and M. Salazar, 09.08.2005, OUMNH. ZC GoogleMaps .2005-10-099; 4 spec., Isla Bastimentos , offshore reef near Cayo Coral (Coral Cay), Archipelago, 09°13.433’N 082°06.180’W, on Plexaurella sp. , 1–2 m, leg. S. De Grave, 11.08.2008, OUMNH. ZC GoogleMaps .2008-14-138; 1 spec., same collection data, OUMNH. ZC GoogleMaps .2008-14-145.

Remarks. Sparsely recorded in the tropical northwestern Atlantic, from the Florida Keys southwards to Belize ( Wicksten and Cox, 2011), and now Panama; usually associated with Antillogorgia americana , but also recorded from Leptogorgia sp. ( Wicksten and Cox, 2011) and now from Plexaurella sp. , 1– 10 m.