Two new species of the caridean genus Nematocarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 are reported from deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise. Nematocarcinus burukovskyi n. sp. is provisionally assigned to Nematocarcinus , but is clearly distinguished

The deep sea shrimp genus Nematocarcinus Milne Edwards, 1881 includes 47 species, ten of them have been recorded from the Atlantic Ocean. Herein, material sampled during three scientific projects (REVIZEE Central Fishery project; Campos Basin Deep Sea

Distribution and abundance of the deep-water shrimps Nematocarcinus occurring off western Mexico were analysed. One or two species were captured in 33% of the samples obtained between 122 and 2340 m depth. The first species, Nematocarcinus faxoni, was