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CRABS (BRACHYURA) OF THE GULF OF MEXICO

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Crabs of the Gulf of Mexico 99<br />

Depth: 31 to 311 m (17 to 170 fm).<br />

Habitat: sand, gravel, coral, and broken shell bottoms.<br />

Remarks: Listed from Florida by Wass (1955), Abele (1970), and Menzel<br />

(1971). Rathbun (1930) reported ovigerous females from the Gulf of Mexico<br />

during February-March and June-July. Abele (1970) noted that this species does<br />

not fit any of the genera reviewed or erected by Guinot (1968a).<br />

Micropanope sculplipes Stimpson, 1871 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 2: 140)<br />

Rathbun, 1930, p. 428, pi. 178, figs. 1-3; Rathbun, 1933, p. 66; Williams, 1965,<br />

p. 193, fig. 175; Felder, 1973a, p. 66, pi. 9, fig. 15.<br />

Range: North and South Carolina; Florida Keys and Drjr Tortugas; west and<br />

northwest coasts of Florida; Texas; St. Croix; Grenada; Barbados.<br />

Depth: 9 to 311 m (5 to 170 fm).<br />

Habitat: sand, gravel, coral, and broken shell bottoms.<br />

Remarks: Listed from Florida by Wass (1955). Cerame-Vivas and Gray<br />

(1966) extended the known range of this crab to North Carolina.<br />

Micropanope spinipes A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Crust. Reg. Mex., p. 326)<br />

Rathbun, 1930, p. 443, text-fig. 71, pi. 181, figs. 1-2; Pequegnat & Ray, 1974, p. 238,<br />

figs. 18-22.<br />

Range: Bermuda; Bahamas; Florida Keys; West Flower Garden Bank, off<br />

Texas; Curasao; Alagoas and off the Abrolhos Islands, Brazil.<br />

Depth: low tide mark to 55 m (to 30 fm).<br />

Habitat: sand and coral bottoms; off coral reefs; in sponges.<br />

Micropanope truncalifrons Rathbun, 1898 (Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ.<br />

Iowa 4: 274)<br />

Rathbun, 1930, p. 433, text-fig. 68, pi. 178, figs. 7-8.<br />

Range: off north coast of Cuba; off Caribbean coast of Yucatan.<br />

Depth: 238 to 355 m (130 to 194 fm).<br />

Habitat: coral sand bottoms.<br />

Remarks: This species may be eventually transferred to the genus Nanocassiope.<br />

Guinot (1971, p. 1076) noted a resemblance between this species and A^.<br />

melanodactylus (A. Milne Eldwards), the type species of the genus recently<br />

erected by Guinot (1967a).<br />

Micropanope urinalor (A. Milne Edwards, 1881) (Crust. Reg. Mex., p. 289)<br />

Rathbun, 1930, p. 451, pi. 182, figs. 3,^, pi. 183, figs. 1-3; Chace, 1940, p. 34;<br />

Williams, McCloskey & Gray, 1968, p. 51, fig. 7.<br />

Range: off North Carolina; Florida Keys; north and south coasts of Cuba; St.<br />

Croix.<br />

Depth: 146 to457m (80 to250 fm).<br />

Habitat: sand and coral bottoms.<br />

Micropanope xanlhiformis (A. Milne Edwards, 1880).<br />

Transferred to a new genus, Nanoplax, by Guinot (1967a). See Nanoplax<br />

xanthiformis.

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