Lophogaster spinosus Ortmann, 1907 Distribution. Bahamas, West Indies, Trinidad, SE-coast of United States, Brazil. NW Atlantic. Depth range. 260–5340 m. Habitat. Muddy bottoms. Iberian Seas published records. Gulf of Cádiz (Abelló et al. 2011). Off Canary Archipelago (Dürr & González 2002, Wittmann et al. 2004, Hernández et al. 2008, Wittmann & Riera 2012). Off Morocco (De Jong 1996). Remarks. In the Gulf of Cádiz, the species has been found to live on muddy bottoms between 363 and 548 m depths, in areas characterised by the occurrence of submarine mud volcanoes which condition the structure and deposition dynamics of the sediments (Abelló et al. 2011).

Published as part of Vicente, Carlos San, 2016, An annotated check-list of lophogastrids (Crustacea: Lophogastrida) from the seas of the Iberian Peninsula, pp. 481-502 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on page 484, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/261351