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Megalobrachium poeyi (Guerin-Meneville,
1855)
Description: Benedict, 1901:136, pi. 3: fig. 8.
Type-locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Widely distributed from eastern
Central Florida throughout the eastern
Caribbean to Brazil, rarely in Panama (Gore
and Abele, 1976).
Megalobrachium soriatum (Say, 1818)
Description: Williams, 1984:240, fig. 175.
Type-locality: St. Catherines Island, Georgia.
Distribution: Off Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina, to Port Aransas, Texas; West Indies
to Barbadoes; Contoy, Mexico; Bahaia
Caledonia and Galeta Island, Panama
(Williams, 1984).
Neopisosoma angustifrons (Benedict, 1901)
Description: Benedict, 1901:135, pi. 3: fig. 6.
Type-locality: Trinidad.
Distribution: Known from the southwestern
Gulf of Mexico, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad,
Cubagua, Islas La Tortuga, Bonaire, Curacao,
Panama and Venezuela; littoral (Gore and
Abele, 1976). Florida (personal
communication, P. A. McLaughlin).
Pachycheles ackleianus A. Milne Edwards,
1880
Description: A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier,
1923:295, pi. 2: fig. 12, pi. 4: fig. 2.
Type-locality: Blake Stn. 11, off west coast of
Florida, and Stn. 39, Jolbos Islands.
Distribution: Tampa Bay, Florida; Gulf of
Mexico; North of Dry Tortugas; Jolbos
Islands, North of Yucatan; Jamaica; St.
Thomas; Barbados (Haig, 1956).
Pachycheles monilifer (Dana, 1852)
Description: Dana, 1852:413; 1855, pi. 26:
fig. 3.
Type-locality: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Distribution: Outer Hillsboro Reef, Florida;
Contoy, Mexico; Isla Cubagua, Venezuela;
Mamanguape, Brazil; Pernambuco; Rio de
Janeiro; Bahia, Brazil (Haig, 1956).
Pachycheles pilosus (H. Milne Edwards,
1837)
Description: Williams, 1984:241, fig. 176.
Type-locality: Vicinity of Charleston, South
Carolina.
Distribution: Charleston, South Carolina; Key
West to Sarasota Bay, Florida; through West
Indies to Tobago and Aruba (Williams, 1984).
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Pachycheles riisei (Stimpson, 1858)
Description: Schmitt, 1935a:188, fig. 48.
Type-locality: St. Thomas.
Distribution: Florida, Key West; Puerto Rico;
St. Thomas; Barbados; Una Trindade; Maceio,
Alagoas, Brazil (Haig, 1956).
Pachycheles rugimanus A. Milne Edwards,
1880
Description: Williams, 1984:242, fig. 177.
Type-locality: Contoy and W of Florida.
Distribution: Off Cape Lookout, North
Carolina, through Florida to St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands, and Contoy Island, Mexico;
Pernambuco, Brazil (Coelho, 1964; Williams,
1984).
Parapetrolisthes tortugensis (Glassell, 1945)
Description: Glassell, 1945:228, fig. 2.
Type-locality: In and around Tortugas,
Florida.
Distribution: Dry Tortugas, Florida; off Isla La
Tortuga, Venezuela; Virgin Islands.
Petrolisthes armatus (Gibbes, 1850)
Description: Haig, 1960:50, pi. 19: fig. 2.
Type-locality: Florida.
Distribution: Widely distributed from the
tropical western coast of Africa, the east central
coast of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and
throughout the Caribbean as far south as Santa
Catharina, Brazil; in the eastern Pacific from
the Gulf of California, Mexico, to Peru (Gore
and Abele, 1976).
Petrolisthes galathinus (Bosc, 1802)
Description: Williams, 1984:243, fig. 178.
Type-locality: Unknown.
Distribution: Cape Hatteras, North Carolina,
through Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea to
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Ilha Trinidade off
Brazil; Pacific Ocean from Isla San Lucas,
Costa Rica, to off La Libertad, Ecuador
(Williams, 1984).
Petrolisthes jugosus Streets, 1872
Description: Schmitt, 1935a: 185.-Gore and
Abele, 1976:11.
Type-locality: Saint Martin Islands.
Distribution: Known from the southwestern
Gulf of Mexico, the Antilles in the eastern
Caribbean, Trinidad, Tobago, and some
islands along the northern coast of South
america, westward to Panama; Boca Raton,
Palm Beach County, Florida (Gore and Abele,
1976).