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Type-locality: Rio Itahai Itahai, state of Santa
Catarina, Brazil.
Distribution: Rio Itahai Itahai, State of Santa
Catarina, and Rio Gurjau, Recife, state of
Pernambuco, Brazil; introduced into the
freshwaters of southern Florida (Abele,
1972c).
FAMILY OPLOPHORIDAE
Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne Edwards,
1881
Description: Chace, 1940a: 134, figs. 11-17.
Type-locality: Berlengas Island, off the West
Coast of Portugal, 2590 m.
Distribution: North Atlantic between about
20° and 53° N latitude (Chace, 1940a).
Florida (85-250 m over 750 m) (personal
communication, P. M. Mikkelsen).
Janicella spinicauda (A. Milne Edwards,
1883)
Description: Chace, 1986: figs. 23,24.
Type-locality: Off Casablanca, Morocco:
Travailleur Stn. 65; 34°13 , 30"N, 7°43'00"W,
636 m, muddy sand.
Distribution: Apparently widespread
mesopelagically in the tropical seas of the
world (except in the eastern Pacific off the
Americas) (Chace, 1986).
Oplophorus gracilirostris A. Milne Edwards,
1881
Description: Chace, 1986: figs. 32a-32c.
Type-locality: Off Dominica, Lesser Antilles,
216 m.
Distribution: Off southeastern Africa, Indian
Ocean, Indonesia, Philippines, southern
Japan, Fiji Islands, Hawaii, Gulf of Mexico,
Bahamas, Caribbean Sea; mesopelagic
(Chace, 1986).
Oplophorus spinosus (Brulld, 1839)
Description: Crosnier and Forest, 1973:25.
Type-locality: Canary Islands (Holthuis,
1949b).
Distribution: Indian Ocean, southern Japan,
off Hawaii, seamounts west of North
America, and northeast of Easter Island,
western and eastern subtropical North
Atlantic, central South Atlantic; mesopelagic
(Chace, 1986). Florida (150 m) (personal
communication, P. M. Mikkelsen).
Systellaspis debttis (A. Milne Edwards, 1881)
Description: Chace, 1986: figs. 34g-i, 35 e-f.
Type-locality: "... trouvee a une profondeur
de 500 brasses dans le canal de Bahama."
Distribution: South Africa, Indian Ocean,
Philippines, Indonesia, Hawaii, western
Atlantic from south of Greenland to Gulf of
Mexico and Bahamas and eastern Atlantic
from the Faeroe Islands to Angola;
mesopelagic (Chace, 1986).
FAMILY PASIPHAEIDAE
Leptochela bermudensisGurney, 1939
Description: Chace, 1976:7, figs. 5-7.
Type-locality: Seven miles south of Bermuda
between 1000 m and surface.
Distribution: Bermuda to Barbados and
southwestern Gulf of Mexico (Chace, 1976).
Leptochela carinata Ortmann, 1893
Description: Chace, 1976:45, figs. 35-37.--
Williams, 1984:59, fig. 39.
Type-locality: Off Baia de Marajo, Para,
Brazil, 50-100 m.
Distribution: Georges Bank; South Carolina;
Gulf of Mexico through Bahamas to Para,
Brazil (Williams, 1984).
Leptochela papulata Chace, 1976
Description: Chace 1976:26, figs. 22-24.
Type-locality: East of Cape Lookout, North
Carolina, 34°35 , 30"N, 75°45'30"W, 59 m.
Distribution: Georges Bank off Cape Cod,
Massachusetts (Fontaine, 1977); North
Carolina to Georgia; eastern Gulf of Mexico
(Williams, 1984).
Leptochela serratorbita Bate, 1888
Description: Chace, 1976:36, figs. 29-31.~
Williams, 1984:58, fig. 38.
Type-locality: Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Distribution: Beaufort, North Carolina; South
Carolina; western Gulf of Mexico and Florida
Keys to Leeward Islands (Williams, 1984).
FAMILY BRESILIIDAE
Discias atlanticus Gurney, 1939
Description: Williams, 1984:62, fig. 41.
Type-locality: The Reach, Bermuda.
Distribution: Bermuda; off Savannah,
Georgia, off Fort Pierce, Florida;
Guadeloupe; Cape Verde Islands and Gabon;
off northern Kenya (Bruce, 1975; Gore and
Wilson, 1978); (Williams, 1984).