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Munida miles A. Milne Edwards, 1880
Description: A. Milne Edwards, 1880:51.--
Chace, 1942b:36.
Type-locality: Gulf of Mexico; Blake Stn. 45;
of Havana, Cuba, Blake Stn. 53.
Distribution: North coast of Cuba; eastern Gulf
of Mexico; the Caribbean off Honduras
(Pequegnat and Pequegnat, 1970) and
throughout the Lesser Antilles; south as far as
Pernambuco, Brazil.
Munida pusilla Benedict, 1902
Description: Williams, 1984:236, fig. 171.
Type-locality: Albatross Stn. 2405, Gulf of
Mexico (south of Cape San Bias, Florida,
28°45'N, 85°02*W, 55 m).
Distribution: Off Cape Lookout, North
Carolina, to Straits of Florida and through
eastern Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan; Colombia
and Trinidad (Williams, 1984).
Munida santipauli Henderson, 1885
Description: Henderson, 1885:41 l.-Chace,
1942b:38.
Type-locality: Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Rocks (00°56*N, 29°22'W), Atlantic Ocean.
Distribution: In Western Atlantic from off
Florida to St. Paul's Rocks and in the eastern
Atlantic from the Azores to the African coast in
the region of the Canary Islands; off South
Africa (Chace, 1942b).
Munida simplex Benedict, 1902
Description: Benedict, 1902:272, fig. 19.
Type-locality: Albatross Stn. 2169; depth 140 m.
Distribution: Off Havana, Cuba; Florida.
Munida spinifrons Henderson, 1885
Description: Henderson, 1888:144, pi. 15,
fig. 1.
Type-locality: Challenger Stn. 113A, off
Fernando Noronha; 7-25 fathoms.
Distribution: Southern Florida and the typelocality.
Munida stimpsoni A. Milne Edwards, 1880
Description: A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier,
1897:48, pi. 4: figs. 1-13.
Type-locality: The original material was
collected from 20 Blake stations throughout the
West Indies. A type-locality was not
designated although the description was
apparently based on material from Blake Stn.
143,150 fathoms, 17°30'N, 69°43.5'E (A.
Milne Edwards and Bouvier, 1897).
Distribution: From north coast of Cuba
through the West Indian regions to Grenada
(Chace, 1942b). 100 miles south of Panama
City, Florida, 183 m (personal communication,
D. K. Camp).
Munida valida Smith, 1883
Description: Williams, 1984:237, fig. 172,173.
Type-locality: Off Southern New England Fish
Hawk Stn. 1112, 39 0 56 r N, 70 o 35W, 448 m;
Stn. 1124,40°01'N,68 0 54 , W, 1171 m.
Distribution: Off southern New England
through Gulf of Mexico to Golfo de
Morrosquillo, Colombia, and Curasao
(Williams, 1984).
Munidopsis armata (A. Milne Edwards, 1880)
Description: Chace, 1942b:74.~Mayo,
1974:72, figs. 6, 7.
Type-locality: Fredericksted (St. Croix, Virgin
Islands), Blake Stn. 137, 1144m.
Distribution: Known from the Caribbean and
from the Straits of Florida south to British
Guiana in the western Atlantic (Mayo, 1974).
Munidopsis platirostris (A. Milne Edwards
and Bouvier, 1894)
Description: Chace, 1942b:75.~Mayo,
1974:216, fig. 31.
Type-locality: Off Barbados, 183 m.
Distribution: Known in the western Atlantic
from the Straits of Florida, Arrowsmith Bank
in the northwest Caribbean, north and south of
the Dominican Republic, and in the Lesser
Antilles (southeastern Caribbean) from
Dominica to Barbados (Mayo, 1974).
Munidopsis polita (Smith, 1883)
Description: Smith, 1883:50, pi. 2: fig. l,pl.
3: figs. 1-5. -Pequegnat and Pequegnat,
1970:155.
Type-locality: Western North Atlantic (off
Martha's Vineyard), Fish Hawk Stn.
Distribution: Off the east coast of the United
States (off Martha's Vineyard) and in NW Gulf
of Mexico. Florida (182-212 m) (personal
communication, P. M. Mikkelsen).
Family Porcellanidae
Euceramus praelongus Stimpson, 1860
Description: Williams, 1984:239, fig. 174.
Type-locality: Beaufort, North Carolina.
Distribution: Delaware Bay (USNM; Watling
and Maurer, 1976) to Aransas area of Texas
coast (Williams, 1984).