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and the Caribbean Sea, including the Straits of
Florida (Holthuis, 1974).
Metanephrops binghami (Boone, 1927)
Description: Holthuis, 1974:827, figs. 25,26.
Type-locality: From north of Glover Reef,
British Honduras (Belize).
Distribution: From the Bahama Islands to
French Guiana, including the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea (Holthuis, 1974).
Nephropsis aculeata Smith, 1881
Description: Holthuis, 1974:776, figs. 15,
16A, 16B.
Type-locality: East of New Jersey, United
States of America, 40°02'N, 70°57W, 183 m,
bottom soft stickey mud.
Distribution: From east of New Jersey, to
French Guiana, including the entire Gulf of
Mexico and Caribbean Sea (Holthuis, 1974).
INFRAORDER THALASSIMDEA
FAMILY AXIIDAE
Axiopsis hirsutimana (Boesch and Smalley,
1972)
Description: Boesch and Smalley, 1972:45,
figs. 1-9.
Type-locality: Off British Guiana, 6°50*N,
54 0 47W.
Distribution: Off British Guiana; SE
Pascagoula Sea Buoy, Mississippi; about 80
km northeast of tip of Mississippi River delta
(Boesch and Smalley, 1972). Tortugas shrimp
grounds, Florida (Williams, 1974c).
Axiopsis oxypleura (Williams, 1974)
Description: Williams, 1974c:457, figs. 11-18.
Type-locality: Straits of Florida west of Riding
Rocks, 25°15'N, 79 0 13W, 365 m.
Distribution: Known only from the typelocality.
Axiopsis serratifrons (A. Milne Edwards,
1873)
Description: Kensley, 1981:1253, figs. 1-5.
Type-locality: "Upolu [presumably the island
in western Samoa] et les iles Sandwich"
[presumably the Hawaiian Islands].
Distribution: See Kensley, 1981:1260
Coralaxius abelei Kensley and Gore, 1981
Description: Kensley and Gore, 1981:1278,
figs. 1-6.
Type-locality: Atlantic Ocean, French Reef, off
Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida; 25°02'N,
80°19'W;76m.
Distribution: French Reef, off Key Largo,
Florida; Caribbean Sea, Carrie Bow Cay,
Belize.
FAMILY CALLIANASSIDAE
Callianassa acanthochirus' (Stimpson, 1866)
Description: Biffar, 1971a:655, figs. 3,4.
Type-locality: Florida Keys.
Distribution: Miami; Florida Keys; Dry
Tortugas, Puerto Rico; Jamaica; Barbados;
Antigua; Venezuela (Biffar, 1971a).
Callianassa atlantica Rathbun, 1926
Description: Williams, 1984:18fl, fig. 125.
Type-locality: "Our species ranges from the
coast of Southern [United] States north to Long
Island Sound" (Smith, 1873).
Distribution: Bass River, Nova Scotia, to
Georgia; Franklin County, Florida (Williams,
1984).
Callianassa biformis Biffar, 1971
Description: Williams, 1984:182, fig. 126.
Type-locality: South end of Sapelo Island,
mouth of Doboy Sound, Mcintosh County,
Georgia.
Distribution: Bass River, Yarmouth and
Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts (Williams
and Wigley, 1977); Chesapeake Bay(?); North
Inlet, South Carolina (Holland and Polgar,
1976), to Mcintosh County, Georgia; Franklin
County, NW Florida (Williams, 1984).
Callianassa branneri (Rathbun, 1900)
Description: Rathbun, 1900:150, pi. 8: figs. 5-
8.~Biffar, 1971a: 661, figs. 5,6.
Type-locality: Mamanguarpe Stone Reef,
Brazil.
Distribution: Bermuda, southeastern Florida,
including Keys and Dry Tortugas; Bimini;
Little San Salvador; Puerto Rico; Barbados;
Curacao; Tobago; Brazil (Biffar, 1971a).
Callianassa fragilis Biffar, 1970
Description: Biffar, 1970:45, fig. 3;
1971a:667, figs. 7, 8.
Type-locality: Punta Arenas, Puerto Rico.
Distribution: Southeastern Florida; Puerto
Rico; Antigua; Venezuela (Biffar, 1971a).
Callianassa guassutingaRodrigues, 1966
Description: Rodrigues, 1966:45, figs. 41c-