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32: figs. 1, 2.
Type-locality: Twenty stations, ranging from
Havana to Barbados, 158 to 517 m.
Distribution: West coast of Cuba; north coast
of Yucatan (Gulf); north coast of Cuba; Puerto
Rico; Lesser Antilles, from Dominica to
Grenada (Powers, 1977). Florida (26°48'N,
84°37'W, 190.5-210 m) (personal
communication, D. K. Camp).
FAMILY HOMOLIDAE
Homola barbata (Fabricius, 1793)
Description: Williams, 1984:261, fig. 193.
Type-locality: Bay of Naples.
Distribution: Off southeastern Massachusetts
to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; eastern Atlantic Ocean
from Portugal and Azores to Cape Verde
Islands and Angola; South Africa;
Mediterranean Sea (Williams, 1984).
FAMILY LATREILLHDAE
Latreillia manningi Williams, 1982
Description: Williams, 1984:262, fig. 194.
Type-locality: American Shoal Light, Florida,
about 10 mi. N by W, 192-201 m.
Distribution: Nantucket Shoals off
Massachusetts to off Havana, Cuba; Venezuela;
Ascension Island; Frost (1936) reported a
megalopa off Newfoundland (Williams, 1984).
Florida (64 m) (personal communication, P.
M. Mikkelsen).
FAMILY RANINIDAE
Lyreidus nitidus (A. Milne Edwards, 1880)
Description: A. Milne Edwards, 1880:34.--
Goeke, 1980:149.
Type-locality: Grenada, British West Indies,
uuStn. 259, 288m.
Distribution: Martha's Vineyard; Gulf of
Mexico; Greater Antilles; off Tortugas, Florida;
off Surinam, NE of Paramaribo; north coast of
Venezuela, off Puerto Cabello.
Ranilia constricta (A. Milne Edwards, 1880)
Description: Williams, 1984:265, fig. 196.
Type-locality: Near Sombrero (Florida?), 86
m. (see Rathbun, 1937).
Distribution: SE of Cape Fear, North Carolina,
33°42'N, 76°39.5'W, 140 m; Palm Beach,
Florida, to Florida Straits and Yucatan
Channel; Cuba; off Barbados; Ascension
Island; eastern Atlantic from Sierra Leone and
Annobon Island (Manning and Holthuis,
1981).
Ranilia muricata H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Description: Williams, 1984:266, fig. 197.
Type-locality: Unknown.
Distribution: North Carolina; Bahamas; Florida
Straits; southern to northwestern Florida; Swan
Island (Caribbean), Colombia.
Raninoides loevis (Latreille, 1825)
Description: Williams, 1984:267, fig. 198.
Type-locality: Unknown.
Distribution: S Cape Hatteras, 35°03.2N,
75°35.1W; around Gulf of Mexico and
southern Caribbean Sea, including Leeward
Islands, to Bahia, Brazil (Williams, 1984).
Raninoides louisianensis Rathbun, 1933
Description: Rathbun, 1937:12, figs. 6, 7, pi.
1: figs. 5,6.
Type-locality: East of Mississippi delta, 122 m.
Distribution: Gulf of Mexico, from the
Mississippi delta to Campeche Banks (Powers,
1977). South of Appalachicola Bay, Florida
(personal communication, D. K. Camp).
Symethis variolosa (Fabricius, 1793)
Description: Williams, 1984:264, fig. 195.
Type-locality: "In oceano Indico."
Distribution: SE Cape Lookout, North
Carolina, 34°10'N, 76° 10*W, through western
Gulf of Mexico (Goeke, 1980) to Bahia,
Brazil; Fernando de Noronha.
FAMILY DORIPPIDAE
Ethusa mascarone americana A. Milne
Edwards, 1880
Description: Williams, 1984:269, fig. 199.
Type-localities: West Florida, 23.7 m, and
West Florida, 26°16'N, 36.6 m (A. Milne
Edwards, 1880).
Distribution: S of Cape Lookout, North
Carolina (34°06 r N, 76°15'W) to Gulf of
Mexico and West Indies; Maranhao to Bahia,
Brazil; Golfo de California; Taboga Island,
Panama (Williams, 1984).
Ethusa microphthalma Smith, 1881
Description: Williams, 1984:269, fig. 200.
Type-locality: Off Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts, 260.6 m, Stn. 878, Fish
Hawk, 39°55'00"N, 70°54'15"W.
Distribution: Off Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts, to Cuba and around Gulf of
Mexico (Pequegnat et al., 1971).