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Type-locality: Erroneously given as East
Indies ("des Grandes-Indies").
Distribution: North Carolina through Gulf of
Mexico and West Indies to Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; Bermuda (Williams, 1984).
Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804)
Description: Gruvel, 1911:29, fig. 12, pi. 3:
fig. 3.--Holthuis, 1959:124, fig. 20.
Type-locality: Surinam.
Distribution: Western Atlantic Ocean from
Bermuda and Florida to Brazil and the West
Indies (Holthuis, 1959).
Panulirus laevicauda (Latreille, 1817)
Description: Gruvel, 1911:45, fig. 21.--
Holthuis, 1959:123.
Type-locality: Brazil.
Distribution: Bermuda, Florida, Cuba,
Jamaica, Curasao, French Guiana, and Brazil
(Holthuis, 1959).
FAMILY SCYLLARIDAE
Parribacus antarcticus (Lund, 1793)
Description: Holthuis, 1985:73, figs. 21,25A.
Type-locality: Amboina Moluccas (Holthuis,
1985).
Distribution: The species is known both from
the western Atlantic from Florida to Brazil
including the West Indies and Caribbean Sea,
and from the Indo-West Pacific (E and SE
Africa to Formosa) (Holthuis, 1985).
Scyllarides aequinoctialis (Lund, 1793)
Description: Lyons, 1970:15, pi. 2: figs. A, B.
Type-locality: Jamaica.
Distribution: West Indies and Caribbean Sea;
Gulf of Mexico; southern Florida to Bermuda
(Lyons, 1970).
Scyllarides nodifer (Stimpson, 1866)
Description: Williams, 1984:174, fig. 121.
Type-locality: Florida Keys.
Distribution: Bermuda; Cape Lookout, North
Carolina, to Florida and throughout Gulf of
Mexico to Yucatan (Lyons, 1970); a postlarva
from south of Long Island (29°inSf, 71°56W)
was taken in the stomach of a lancetfish
{Alepisaurus) (Williams, 1984).
Scyllarus amerkanus (Smith, 1869)
Description: Williams, 1984:176, fig. 122.
Type-locality: Egmont Key, Florida.
Distribution: Off Bouge Inlet, North Carolina,
to Campeche Banks off Mexico, and Venezuela
(Williams, 1984).
Scyllarus chacei Holthuis, 1960
Description: Williams, 1984:177, fig. 123.
Type-locality: North-northwest mouth of
Marowijne River, about 20 mi. off coast of
Surinam.
Distribution: Off Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina, through Gulf of Mexico, West
Indies, and Caribbean Sea to off Cape Sao
Roque, Brazil (Williams, 1984).
Scyllarus depressus (Smith, 1881)
Description: Williams, 1984:178, fig. 124.
Type-locality: South of Martha's Vineyard,
40°5'39"N, 70°23 , 52 M W, 157.3 m.
Distribution: Off Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts; off Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina, through Gulf of Mexico and West
Indies to State of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Williams,
1984). Florida (78 m) (personal
communication, P. M. Mikkelsen).
FAMILY SYNAXIDAE
Palinurellus gunalachi (Von Martens, 1881)
Description: Manning, 1978:35.
Type-locality: Cuba, Barbados.
Distribution: Bermuda, southern Florida, most
of the West Indies, Yucatan (Manning, 1978).
INFRAORDER ANOMURA
FAMILY COENOBITIDAE
Coenobita clypeatus (Herbst, 1791)
Description: Provenzano, 1959:359, fig. 3.
Tvpe-locality: West Indies.
Distribution: Florida, Bermuda, West Indies to
Venezuela (Provenzano, 1959).
FAMILY DIOGENIDAE
Calcinus tibicen (Herbst, 1791)
Description: Provenzano, 1959:363, fig. 4.
Type-locality: Not given by Herbst.
Distribution: Bermuda, West Indian region
from NW Florida to Brazil (Provenzano, 1959,
Abele, 1970).
Cancellus ornatus Benedict, 1901
Description: Williams, 1984:193, fig. 134.
Type-locality: Northeast Gulf of Mexico
between Mississippi delta and Cedar Keys,
Florida, 28°45'N, ta, 55 m.
Distribution: Off Cape Fear, North Carolina,
33°43*N, 76°40'W to 33°42.7' N, 76°40.2*W,
90-110 m (Herbst et al., 1979) through eastern
Gulf of Mexico, Greater and Lesser Antilles, to