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New host records for Bathypalaemonella serratipalma (Caridea: Bathypalaemonellidae) in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2015

Mary K. Wicksten  and
Tommy Heathman
Mary K. Wicksten*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station Texas 77843-3258, USA
Tommy Heathman
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, 200 Seawolf Parkway, Galveston, Texas 77553, USA
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: M.K. Wicksten, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station Texas 77843-3258, USA email: Wicksten@bio.tamu.edu
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Abstract

The caridean shrimp Bathypalaemonella serratipalma was photographed by a remotely operated vehicle at 1120–2223 m in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The shrimp was living on previously unreported host cnidarians of the families Isididae and Alcyoniidae, and a black coral (Antipatharia), as well as previously reported gorgonian hosts (Chrysogorgia and Iridogorgia spp.). We did not observe interactions between B. serratipalma and other invertebrates living on these hosts, nor did the shrimp occur on the same host cnidarians as the anomurans Uroptychus nitidus or Eumunida picta.

Keywords

BathypalaemonellaAlcyonaceaGorgonaceaAntipathariaGulf of MexicoCaridea
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 8 , 2015 , e96
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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