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Checklist of the Decapod Crustaceans of Florida
SUBORDER
DENDROBRANCHIATA
FAMILY ARISTEIDAE
Aristaeomorpha foliacea (Risso, 1827)
Description: Zariquiey Alvarez, 1968:42, figs.
22a, b, 24a.--Holthuis, 1980b:8.
Type-locality: Vicinity of Nice.
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay
to NW Africa and the entire Mediterranean.
Western Atlantic: South of Massachusetts to
the Straits of Florida, Gulf of Mexico,
Caribbean Sea and off Venezuela. Indo-West
Pacific: East Africa to Japan, Australia, New
Zealand and Fiji (Holthuis, 1980b).
Plesiopenaeus edwardsianus (Johnson, 1867)
Description: Crosnier and Forest, 1973:292,
figs. 98,99a, b.--Holthuis, 1980b:ll.
Type-locality: Madeira
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to
South Africa; (not in the Mediterranean).
Western Atlantic: Grand Bank (43°42"N) to
Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and north
coast of South America (Holthuis, 1980b).
Indo-West Pacific: off east Africa to Japan,
Australia.
FAMILY BENTHESICYMIDAE
Bentheogennema intermedia (Bate, 1888
Description: Bate, 1888:343, pi. 58: fig. S.­
Roberts and Pequegnat, 1970:39.
Type-locality: Off Siera Leone, 01°47*N,
24 0 26*W; 3386 m; Challenger station 106.
Distribution: Appears to be distributed
worldwide; probably pelagic (Roberts and
Pequegnat, 1970); Florida (personal
communication, P. M. Mikkelsen).
FAMILY PENAEIDAE
Funchalia villosa (Bouvier, 1905)
Description: Burkenroad, 1936:129
Type-locality: Between Canary Islands and
Azores.
Distribution: Adults are known from the
eastern and western North Atlantic,
Mediterranean, the south central South
Atlantic, and the Caribbean; larvae known
from the western North Atlantic and South
Pacific. Florida (personal communication, D.
K. Camp, P. M. Mikkelsen).
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Metapenaeopsis gerardoi Perez Farfante, 1971
Description: Perez Farfante, 1971:20, figs.
11,12,13c.
Type-locality: Off Mayaguez, Puerto Rico,
18°8.5' , N, 67°23'W.
Distribution: Bahamas, Florida Keys, West
Indies, and Caribbean coast of Central and
South America (Perez Farfante, 1971).
Metapenaeopsis goodei (Smith, 1885)
Description: Perez Farfante, 1971:9, figs. 4-
8.-Williams, 1984:36,37, figs. 17-18.
Type-locality: Bermudas.
Distribution: Bermuda; between Capes
Hatteras and Lookout, North Carolina,
through Florida Straits and along west Florida
to Pensacola; Isla de Lobos reef, Veracruz
(Ray, 1974), around Yucatan Peninsula,
through Caribbean Sea, and along South
American coast to EspMto Santo, Brazil
(Coelho and Ramos, 1972; Williams, 1984).
Metapenaeopsis smithi (Schmitt, 1924)
Description: Schmitt, 1924a:62, figs, lb, c,
2a, c.~P6rez Farfante, 1971: 29, figs. 13E,
18-22.
Type-locality: Caracas Baai, Curasao.
Distribution: Bermudas and southeastern
Florida to Curasao, mostly near islands;
western Caribbean; Lesser Antilles (Chace,
1972).
Parapenaeus americanus (Rathbun, 1901)
Description: A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier,
1909:231.
Type-locality: Off Mayaguez Harbor, Puerto
Rico, 412 m. Fish Hawk Stn. 6070.
Distribution: 40°03'N, 70°49 r W northern
Uruguay, 33°26'S, 59°58'W; Puerto Rico; St.
Lucia; Martinique.
Parapenaeus politus Smith, 1881
Description: P6rez Farfante, 1982:200, figs.
3-5.--Williams, 1984:37, fig. 19.
Type-locality: Off "Martha's Vineyard"
(Smith, 1885) 39°55 , 00"N, 70°54*15"W, 260 m.
Distribution: Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts, through Gulf of Mexico; Gulf
of Paria off Venezuela (Williams, 1984).
Florida (personal communication, P. M.
Mikkelsen).