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Gulf of Mexico, off west coast of Florida.
Distribution: Known only from the typelocality.
Paguristes tortugae Schmitt, 1933
Description: Williams, 1984:205, fig. 144.
Type-locality: Off Fort Jefferson Dock,
Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida,
Distribution: Reefs off Beaufort, North
Carolina, to southern and southeastern Florida;
through West Indies to northern Brazil; (?)
northern Gulf of Mexico (Williams, 1984).
Paguristes triangulatus A. Milne Edwards
and Bouvier, 1893
Description: Williams, 1984:206, fig. 145.
Type-locality: Barbados, 136 m.
Distribution: Off Oregon Inlet, North Carolina,
(12m) to Tortugas, Florida; Barbados; Trinidad
(Williams, 1984).
Paguristes wassi Provenzano, 1961
Description: Provenzano, 1961:155, fig. 1.
Type-locality: One fourth mi. south-southeast
of Alligator Light, Florida Keys, at 8 m, coral
and sand bottom.
Distribution: From Virgin Islands and Florida
Keys.
Petrochirus diogenes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Description: Williams, 1984:198, fig. 138.
Type-locality: Near shores of Bahama Islands
[Catesby, 1743 (1754 ed.as cited in Holthuis
1959)].
Distribution: Off Cape Lookout, North
Carolina, through Gulf of Mexico and West
Indies to off Ilha de Sao Sevastiao, Brazil,
23°42.5'S, 45°14.5'W (Forest and De Saint
Laurent, 1967).
FAMILY LITHODIDAE
Paralomis cuhensis Chace, 1939
Description: Chace, 1939:49.
Type-locality: East of Havana, Cuba,
23°12'30"N, 82°12'00"W, 439-549 m.
Distribution: From the type-locality. Florida
(26°45'N, 84°55'W, 255-400 m) (personal
communication, D. K. Camp).
FAMILY PAGURIDAE
Agaricochirus acanthinus McLaughlin, 1982
Description: McLaughlin, 1982:838, figs, lg,
2g, 3g, 4,5a, b, e.
Type-locality: Gerda Stn. 1301, 24°57'N,
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80°14'W.
Distribution: Straits of Florida, western
Caribbean (McLaughlin, 1982).
Agaricochirus alexandri (A. Milne Edwards
and Bouvier, 1893)
Description: A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier,
1893:87, pi. 6: figs. 23-26.-- McLaughlin,
1982:834, figs, lb, 2b, 3b.
Type-locality: Blake Stn. 132, off Santa Cruz
(St. Croix), Virgin Islands.
Distribution: Straits of Florida, Caribbean to
Barbados and northern coast of South America
(McLaughlin, 1982).
Agaricochirus boletifer (A. Milne Edwards
and Bouvier, 1893)
Description: A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier,
1893:84, pi. 6: figs. 19-22.-McLaughlin,
1982:825, figs, la, 2a, 3a.
Type-locality: Blake Stn. 231, off St. Vincent,
West Indies.
Distribution: Eastern Gulf of Mexico, central
Caribbean, St. Vincent, West Indies
(McLaughlin, 1982).
Agaricochirus gibbosimanus (A. Milne
Edwards, 1880)
Description: A. Milne Edwards, 1880:42.-
McLaughlin, 1982:836, figs, le, 2e, 3e.
Type-locality: Blake Stn. 206, off Martinique.
Distribution: Western Atlantic off Dominican
Republic; Yucatan Channel and northern
Caribbean; Windward Islands (McLaughlin,
1982). Florida (personal communication, P.
A. McLaughlin).
Anisopagurus bartletti (A. Milne Edwards,
1880)
Description: A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier,
1893:91, pi. 7: figs. 1-9.
Type-locality: Off St. Vincent, 146 fathoms,
Blake Stn. 223.
Distribution: Southern Florida and the islands
of St. Vincent, Grenada and Barbados in the
West Indies.
Anisopagurus pygmaeus (Bouvier, 1918)
Description: Williams, 1984:223, fig. 159.
Type-locality: Bahia de Socapa (Zocappa) near
Santiago de Cuba.
Distribution: Off Little River Inlet, South
Carolina; southern Florida, including Tortugas,
to Puerto Rico; Curasao (Williams, 1984).