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Records caridean shrimps western Mexico 29Marcial). The additional records confirm the continued presenceof this species within its recorded range.Pontonia margarita Smith, 1869Material examined.- Guaymas (ca. 27°56’N, 111°5’W), 4specimens, date unknown, intertidal (coll. L.T. Findley) (EMU-8830). Mazatlan harbour (23°10’41”N, 106°25’29”W), 2 specimens,23/Mar/1983, 7 m (coll. Gustavo Klein Barreda) (EMU-8855). IslaChivos, Mazatlán (23°10’42”N, 106°24’43”W), 3 males and 3 females,3/Dec/1987, scuba diving, “madre perla” (EMU-8865).Previous geographic records.- Southern Gulf of California toColombia; Tres Marías and Galapagos islands (Wicksten & Hendrickx,2003).Remarks.- The Guaymas material represents a northernrange extension of this species (by ca. two degrees of latitude),previously know up to Bahía Agua Verde (25°31”N, 111°0”W),east coast of Southern Baja California. There are three previousrecords of this species in the Southern Gulf of California: two inBahía Mazatlán (EMU-876; EMU-1097) and one in La Paz (EMU-875) (Hendrickx, 1994).Pontonia simplex Holthuis, 1951Material examined.- Isla Puercos, Barra de Navidad(19°11’20”N, 104°40’34”W), 1 specimen, 8/Sep/1983, intertidal(coll. Carlos Escobar Nataren) (EMU-88<strong>21</strong>).Previous geographic records.- Only known from Puerto Escondido,Baja California, in the Southern Gulf of California, andBahía Tenacatita, Colima, Mexico; also recorded in Panama(Wicksten & Hendrickx, 2003).Remarks.- The specimen from Barra de Navidad is the thirdrecord for Mexico.Typton hephaestus Holthuis, 1951Material examined.- Off Río Suchiate, Gulf of Tehuantepec,CEEMEX P7 cruise, St. 39 (14°<strong>21</strong>’48”N, 92°34’24”W), 2 specimens,13/May/1992, 64 m (EMU-8842). Barra de Navidad (19°11’24”N,104°41’38”W), 1 specimen of probably that species, 11/Sep/1982,intertidal (EMU-8828).Previous geographic records.- “Scammon’s Lagoon” (LagunaOjo de Liebre) and La Paz, Baja California; Islas Tres Marías(Wicksten & Hendrickx, 2003).Remarks.- The material examined herein represents twosouthern extensions of the distribution range of this species, fromTres Marías (ca <strong>21</strong>°36’N, 106°24’W) all the way to the Gulf of Tehuantepec(ca. 7°15’ degrees of latitude to the south).Superfamilia Alpheoidea Rafinesque, 1815Familia Alpheidae Rafinesque, 1815Alpheus bellimanus Lockington, 1877Material examined.- Off Cabo San Miguel, CORTES 3, St. 19(28°8’24”N, 112°47’12”W), 5 specimens, 1/Aug/1985, 23 m (EMU-8812). Off Río Copalita, CEEMEX P7, St. 3 (15°46’6”N, 96°1’30”W), 1specimen, 14/May/1992, 48 m (EMU-8841).Previous geographic records.- California, USA, and throughoutthe Gulf of California, Mexico (Hendrickx & Hermoso-Salazar,2005), to Chile; Revillagigedo and Galapagos islands (Wicksten &Hendrickx, 2003).Remarks.- The only previous record of this species in the Gulfof Tehuantepec is east of Salina Cruz and off Tonala (Hendrickx& Vazquez-Cureño, 1998; Hendrickx & Hermoso-Salazar, 2005).There are few records of this species in the central Gulf of California,where the specimen from off Cabo San Miguel was taken.Alpheus utriensis Ramos & Von Prahl, 1989Material examined.- Off Cabo San Miguel, CORTES 3, St. 19(28°08’24”N, 112°47’12”W), 2 specimens, 1/Aug/1985, 27 m (EMU-8810).Previous geographic records.- Puerto Escondido, SouthernGulf of California, Mexico, to Colombia (also in the Atlantic) (Wicksten& Hendrickx, 2003; Anker et al., 2008).Remarks.- The present record represents a northern rangeextension of this species in the Gulf of California. The materialfrom Cabo San Miguel was collected simultaneously with thespecimens reported by Hendrickx & Hermoso-Salazar (2005). Inwestern Mexico, A. utriensis also is known only from Isla Isabel(Kim & Abele, 1988), Puerto Escondido (Wicksten, 1983), and theIslas Tres Marías (Hendrickx & Hermoso-Salazar, 2005, previousrecords in Mexico as A. cristulipes).Alpheus umbo Kim & Abele, 1988Material examined.- Guaymas (27°56’N, 111°5’W), 1 specimen,3/Feb/1986, intertidal (EMU-8858). Punta Mita, near village(20°47’20”N, 105°31’5”W), 2 specimens of probably that species,12/Nov/2004, intertidal (EMU-88<strong>33</strong>).Previous geographic records.- Angel de la Guarda, SanFrancisco, Espíritu Santo, Tres Marías islands, and La Paz, eastcoast of Baja California; south to Colombia (Kim & Abele, 1988;Wicksten & Hendrickx, 2003).Remarks.- The Guaymas material represents the first recordalong the east coast of the Gulf of California. The specimens fromVol. <strong>21</strong> No. 1 • 2011

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