Pleoticus robustus ( Smith, 1885a )

Rodríguez-Quintal, Bladimir & Lira, Carlos, 2025, A review of deep-sea shrimps (Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata and Caridea) with four new records for Venezuela, Zootaxa 5583 (3), pp. 401-436 : 409

Pleoticus robustus ( Smith, 1885a)

Hymenopenaeus robustus : Smith, 1885a: 180.

Pleoticus robustus — Pérez Farfante 1977: 297; Blanco Rambla et al. 1994: 31, Fig. 1c ; Lira et al. 2017: 37; Poupin 2018: 99.

Material examined. 4 nd, 18 miles N of La Tortuga Island , 11°14’N 65°13’W, Fridtjof Nansen R/V st 796, 501– 562 m depth, 09.vii.1988, ( USNM 256526 ); 4 males, 4 females, 25 miles off SE Blanquilla Island , 11°40’00” N 64°14’ 00” W, Fridtjof Nansen R/V st 780, 300–312 m depth, 05.x.1988, ( MMM-Crus-474 ) .

Geographic & bathymetric distribution. Western Atlantic from USA (Massachusetts) to French Guiana ( Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997); 200–1000 m ( Felder et al. 2009).

Remarks. The type locality of the species is 17 miles from off NE Puerto Cumarebo, Falcón State. The holotype and sintype of it described by Smith (1885a) as Hymenopenaeus robustus were deposited at USNM (USNM 6907, 6908). Other records of the species in the country were made by Pérez Farfante (1977) and include the Falcón state, Los Testigos Archipelago and Margarita Island (not Araya Peninsula as in Pérez Farfante (1977), and Delta of Orinoco. Blanco Rambla et al. (1994) reports include Tortuga and Margarita Islands.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Plesionika longicauda: a) male (9.68 mm CL) 17 miles NE Orinoco Delta, 10°25’00”N 64°35’00”W, (MMM- Crus-261). b) specimen from Chichiriviche de la Costa, La Guaira, 60 m. Photography Humberto Ramirez.