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Crabs of the Gulf of Mexico 25<br />
fossor is a synon3^m of an Indo-West Pacific species, Notosceles chimmonis<br />
Bourne.<br />
Raninoides loevis (Latreille, 1825) (Encycl. meth., Hist, nat., vol. 10, p. 268)<br />
Rathbun, 1937, p. 8, text-fig 3, pi. 1, figs 1, 2; Guinot-Dumortier, 1959, p. 246<br />
fig. 2a-c; Gomes Correa, 1970, p. 9.<br />
Range: Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas; southwest coast of Florida; Campeche<br />
Ba}^, off Tabasco, Mexico; Barbados; Colombia (Caribbean); Guianas to Bahia,<br />
Brazil; Pacific coasts of Panama and Colombia.<br />
Depth: 18tol96m (lOtolOZfm).<br />
Habitat: bottom types include ooze, mud, shelly mud, coral, and broken shell.<br />
Remarks: Listed from the R/V Oregon collections in the Gulf of Mexico by<br />
Chace (1956). Guinot-Dumortier (1959) and Knight (1968) compared this<br />
species with R. benedicti Rathbun. Listed from Brazil by Coelho and Ramos<br />
(1972).<br />
Raninoides louisianensis Rathbun, 1933 (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 46: 186)<br />
Common Name: Frog Crab<br />
Rathbun, 1937, p. 12, text-figs. 6, 7, pi. 1, figs. 5, 6; Pequegnat, 1970, p. 181; Felder,<br />
1973a, p. 38, pi. 4, fig. 6.<br />
Range: Gulf of Mexico, from the Mississippi Delta to Campeche Banks.<br />
Depth: 55 to 400 m (30 to 220 fm). Collection records of the R/V Alaminos<br />
showed an extension of this species on the middle and outer continental shelf<br />
to only 115 fm and Pequegnat (1970) believes that the R/V Oregon records at<br />
200 and 220 fm may be due to trawl contamination from earlier, shallower<br />
stations.<br />
Habitat: muddy and fine sand-mud bottoms.<br />
Remarks: Listed from Texas by Leary (1967) and from the Gulf of Mexico by<br />
Chace (1956). Ovigerous females were taken in February, June, July, and<br />
October by the R/V Alaminos (Pequegnat, 1970). Franks et al. (1972) reported<br />
salinity and temperature ranges of collections off Mississippi.<br />
Symelhis Weber, 1795<br />
Symethis variolosa (Fabricius, 1793) (Entomol. System, emend, et aucta, vol.<br />
2, p. 476)<br />
Rathbun, 1937, p. 26, text-fig. 10, pi. 5, figs. 7, 8; Gomes Correa, 1970, p. 10.<br />
Range: North Carolina; southeast Florida; Florida Kej^s and Dry Tortugas;<br />
north of Puerto Rico; Fernando do Noronha to Bahia, Brazil; Pacific coast of<br />
Panama.<br />
Depth: 18 to 110 m (10 to 60fm).<br />
Habitat: sand, mud bottoms; on calcareous algae; under stones.<br />
Remarks: Cerame-Vivas and Gray (1966) extended the previously known<br />
range of this species to North Carolina. Listed from Bra2il by Coelho and Ramos<br />
(1972) and by Fausto Filho (1974).