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27°43'N, lS^W, 30G0-0 m.
Distribution: Probably occurs in all major
tropical and temperate seas (Chace, 1985).
Florida (65-300 m) (personal communication,
P. M. Mikkelsen].
FAMILY CRANGONIDAE
Crangon septemspinosa Say, 1818
Description: Williams, 1984:159, fig. 112.
Type-locality: "Bay shores and inlets of the
sea" (east coast of the United States).
Distribution: Subarctic-boreal (Haefner, 1979)
although extending beyond these limits;
northern part of Gulf of St. Lawrence,
doubtfully Baffin Bay (Squires, 1965) to east
Florida; Arctic Alaska southward to Shumagin
Islands, Alaska; Sea of Okhotsk, and
Ranshima, Hokkaido, Japan (Williams, 1984).
Metacrangon jacqueti agassim (Smith, 1882)
Description: Crosnier and Forest, 1973:233,
figs. 74b, 75a, 76c.
Type-locality: Smith (1882) did not designate a
type but described specimens from Blake Stns.
317,326,332 and 329 off the east coast of the
United States.
Distribution: Western Atlantic from about 41°
N south to Florida.
Parapontocaris caribbaea (Boone, 1927)
Description: Boone, 1927:125, fig. 28.--
Dardeau and Heard, 1983:10, figs. 2f,-3.
Type-locality: Caribbean Sea, off Honduras,
north of Glover Reef, 870 m, Pawnee Stn. 1
Distribution: Western Atlantic, Bahama Islands
and Straits of Florida; northwestern Gulf of
Mexico, off Galveston Bay; Caribbean Sea, off
Honduras (Dardeau and Heard, 1983).
Philoceras gorei (Dardeau, 1980)
Description: Williams, 1984:161, fig. 114.
Type-locality: 135 km due west of Sanibel
Island Light, [Florida], 26°24'N, 83°22*W, 55
m.
Distribution: Off Georgia; off SW Florida,
Cape San Bias and Padre Island, Texas
(Williams, 1984).
Pontophilus brevirostris Smith, 1881
Description: Williams, 1984:161, fig. 113.
Type-locality: Material described from a series
of United States Fish Commission Stns. {Fish
Hawk) 865-867, 870-874,877 and 878,119
to 283 m, off Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts, constitutes the type-series
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(Smith, 1881). In 1882, Smith essentially
repeated the original description, gave locality
data for specimens studied from Stns. 314-
315,321,327,333,344-345, and illustrated a
mature female from Stn. 873, one of the
stations listed in the original description. Two
females from this lot, 40°02'N, 70°57'W, 183
m, are in the type collection of the USNM as
are many syntypes from Stns. 865-67, 871,
and 872 (Williams, 1984).
Distribution: Gulf of Maine to Gulf of Mexico
off Dry Tortugas and Cuba (Williams and
Wigley, 1977; Pequegnat, 1970).
FAMILY GLYPHOCRANGONIDAE
Glyphocrangon haematonotusBolihuk, 1971
Description: Holthuis, 1971:315, figs. 6, 7.
Type-locality: From Gerda Stn. 649, Straits of
Florida, 26°34*N, 79°43 r W, 494 m.
Distribution: From the east coast of South
Carolina and the Bahama Islands to the
Caribbean coast of Colombia and St. Vincent
(Holthuis, 1971).
Glyphocrangon longleyi Schmitt, 1931
Description: Schmitt, 1931:393.~Holthuis,
1971:309, figs. 6,7.
Type-locality: South of Dry Tortugas, Florida.
Distribution: East coast of Florida, Bahamas,
Gulf of Mexico south to Santa Lucia (West
Indies), Yucatan and Colombia (Holthuis,
1971).
Glyphocrangon spinicauda A. Milne Edwards,
1881
Description: A. Milne Edwards, 1881:3.--
Holthuis, 1971:295, figs. 6, 7.
Type-locality: St. Kitts (17°19'27"N,
62°50'30"W, 458 m, fine gray sand and ooze).
Distribution: Western Atlantic from the east
coast of Florida south to Barbados and into the
Caribbean area as far west as Yucatan,
Honduras, and Nicaragua (Holthuis, 1971).
INFRAORDER ASTACIDEA
FAMILY NEPHROPIDAE
Acanthacaris caeca (A. Milne Edwards, 1881)
Description: Holthuis, 1974:741, figs. 4-8.
Type-locality: Off Grenada, HW^'N,
61*48'30"W, 761 m.
Distribution: Throughout the Gulf of Mexico