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Type-locality: Off Florida, Sargassum Sea.
Distribution: NE Atlantic, Sargassum Sea;
Florida (75-750 m) (personal communication,
P. M. Mikkelsen).
Sergestes vigttax Stimpson, 1860
Description: Hansen, 1922:159, pi. 1: fig. 8.
Type-locality: Off the Azores.
Distribution: NE Atlantic, Indian Ocean from
Gulf of Aden to Geylon and Gocos-Keeling
Island; Florida (65-300 m) (personal
communication, P. M. Mikkelsen).
Sergio, extenuatus Burkenroad, 1940
Description: Crosnier and Forest, 1973:338,
figs. 112e-f, 113b, 114g.
Type-locality: Off the Ivory Coast, 03°45'S,
10WW.
Distribution: Tropical eastern Atlantic (Gabon
to Angola); Florida (85-250 m) (personal
communication, P. M. Mikkelsen).
Sergia splendens Sund, 1920
Description: Kensley, 1971:260, fig. 23.
Type-locality: Unknown
Distribution: North Atlantic, Mediterranean
(off Monaco), off Table Bay. Florida (85-250
m) (personal communication, P. M.
Mikkelsen).
FAMILY LUCIFERIDAE
Lucifer faxoni Borradaile, 1915
Description: Williams, 1984:52, fig. 34.
Type-locality: Hampton Roads, Virginia
(Chace 1972).
Distribution: "Coastal waters of North and
South America from Long Island Sound to
Rio de Janeiro," around Gulf of Mexico and
throughout Caribbean Sea (probably
widespread); Bermuda and scattered mid-
Atlantic occurrences in path of Gulf Stream;
Bay of Dakar, Senegal (Bowman and
McCain, 1967).
Lucifer typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Description: Bowman and McCain,
1967:660, figs, la, b, 2-7.
Type-locality: Tropical North Atlantic.
Distribution: Warmer open waters of the
north and south Atlantic oceans approximately
between the 40 degrees parallels. Unlike
L. faxoni, this species is not usually found in
inshore waters (Bowman and McCain, 1967).
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SUBORDER PLEOCYEMATA
INFRAORDER
STENOPODIDEA
FAMILY STENOPODIDAE
Microprosthema semilaeve (Von Martens,
1872)
Description: Holthuis, 1946:54, pi. 3: fig. 1.
Type-locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Bahamas, southern Florida, and
Yucatan to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil
(Chace, 1972).
Odontozona lihertae Gore, 1981
Description: Gore, 1981:153, figs. 4a-c, 5a-l.
Type-locality: Elbow Reef, off Key Largo,
Monroe County, Florida.
Distribution: Known only from the typelocality.
Stenopus hispidus (Olivier, 1811)
Description: Williams, 1984:54, fig. 35.
Type-locality: "Australasiatic seas."
Distribution: Western Atlantic from North
Carolina (Kruczynski and Jenner, 1969) and
Bermuda, southern Florida through Gulf of
Mexico (Ray, 1974) to Fernando de Noronha
and Espirito Santo, Brazil (Coelho and
Ramos, 1972). Indo-Pacific from Durban,
South Africa, and Red Sea, to Japan, Hawaii,
western Australia south to ~24 degrees South
and eastern Australia as far south as
Shellharbour, New South Wales, through
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Lord Howe
Island, northern New Zealand, to Tuamotu
Archipelago (Yaldwyn, 1968; Williams,
1984).
Stenopus scutellatus Rankin, 1898
Description: Williams, 1984:56, fig. 36.
Type-locality: Silver Cay, New Providence,
Bahamas.
Distribution: Bermuda; South Carolina
(Wenner and Read, 1982); Gulf of Mexico to
Fernando de Noronha and Rio Grande do
Norte, Brazil (Williams, 1984).
INFRAORDER CARIDEA
FAMILY ATYIDAE
Potimirim potimirim (Miiller, 1881)
Description: Villalobos, 1960:327.--Abele,
1972c:215, figs. 3D, 4.