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98 Lawrence W. Powers<br />
Range: Dry Tortugas; Barbados.<br />
Depth: shallow water.<br />
Habitat: froni coral heads.<br />
Micropanope distincla (Rathbun, 1898) (Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa<br />
4: 272)<br />
As Lophopanopeus dislinctus—Rathbun, 1930, p. 331, pi. 155, figs. 1-2.<br />
As Micropanope dislincta—Menzies, 1948, p. 24.<br />
Range: North Carolina; Florida Straits; Dry Tortugas; northwest Florida;<br />
Barbados.<br />
Depth: 48tol85m(26tol01fm).<br />
Habitat: sand and coral bottoms.<br />
Remarks: Menzies (1948) transferred this species to Micropanope and he<br />
considered it to be close to M. sculptipes Stimpson, the type species of the genus.<br />
Cerame-Vivas and Gray (1966) extended the known range (listed as Lophopanopeus)<br />
to North Carolina.<br />
Micropanope lobifrons A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Crust. Reg. Mex., p. 327)<br />
Rathbun, 1930, p. 429, pi. 178, figs. 4-6; Rathbun, 1933, p. 66.<br />
Range: south Florida, in Gulf Stream; Dry Tortugas; off northwest Florida;<br />
off north coast of Cuba; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands; Santa Cruz Island (Carib.);<br />
Grenada; Barbados; Colon, Panama.<br />
Depth: 37 to 311 m (20 to 170 fm).<br />
Habitat: sand, coral, rock, and broken shell substrates.<br />
Remarks: Guinot (1968b) retained this species in Micropanope along with<br />
the type species, while revising the genus.<br />
Micropanope nuUingi (Rathbun, 1898) (Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa<br />
4: 271), novo comb. Rathbun, 1930 (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 152: 450)<br />
Ratlibun, 1930, p. 450, text-fig. 74; Rathbun, 1933, p. 67, fig. 57; Williams, 1963,<br />
p. 194, figs. 177,183J; Felder, 1973a, p. 66, pi. 9, fig. 22.<br />
Range: North Carolina; east coast of Florida; Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas;<br />
west and northwest coasts of Florida; Texas; north coast of Yucatan; north coast<br />
of Cuba; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands; Old Providence Island (Carib.);<br />
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.<br />
Depth: shore to 183 m (to 100 fm).<br />
Habitat: rock, sand, coral, and broken-shell substrates; from boulder-covered<br />
beaches; from clumps of Porites and Halimede.<br />
Remarks: Felder (1973a) notes that this species may be eventually placed in<br />
a different genus on the basis of differences in male first pleopods. Williams<br />
(1965) listed ovigerous females from Florida in July.<br />
Micropanope pusilla A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Crust. Reg. Mex., p. 327)<br />
Rathbun, 1930, p. 431, pi. 179, figs. 7-8; Rathbun, 1933, p. 66.<br />
Range: Dry Tortugas; northwest of Key West; west and northwest coasts of<br />
Florida; Alabama; north coast of Cuba; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands.