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Cancer irroratus Say, 1817
Description: Williams, 1984:353, fig. 288.
Type-locality: "Inhabits the ocean" (Atlantic
coast of the United States).
Distribution: Labrador to off Miami, Florida
(Williams, 1984).
FAMILY GERYONIDAE
Geryon fenneri Manning and Holthuis, 1984
Description: Manning and Holthuis, 1984:666,
figs. 1, 2a, b, 3a-c, 4a, b.
Type-locality: Off Fernandina, Florida,
Albatross Stn. 2669.
Distribution: Around coasts of Florida.
FAMILY PORTUNIPAE
Arenaeus cribrarius (Lamarck, 1818)
Description: Williams, 1984:362, fig. 292.
Type-locality: Brazil.
Distribution: Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts,
to Santa Catarina, Brazil (Williams, 1984).
Bathynectes longispina Stimpson, 1871
Description: Rathbun, 1930:28, pis. 9,10.--
Manning and Holthuis, 1981:80.
Type-locality: Off Sand Key, Key West, and
American Shoal, all in me Florida Straits, 183-
275m.
Distribution: Off Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts, to Gulf Stream in Florida
Straits.
Benthochason schmitti Rathbun, 1931
Description: Rathbun, 1931:125, pis. 1, 2.--
Pequegnat, 1970:187, fig. 6-6.
Type-locality: South of Loggerhead Key,
Tortugas, Florida, 329 m.
Distribution: Off Dry Tortugas; deep waters
off Mississippi to Texas; off southern Gulf
coast of Mexico; recently found off New
England (Powers, 1977).
Callinectes bocourti A. Milne Edwards, 1879
Description: Williams, 1984:365, figs. 293f,
294.
Type-locality: Mullins River, 20 mi. south of
Belize, (British) Honduras.
Distribution: Jamaica and Belize to Santa
Catarina, Brazil; Florida, Mississippi, North
Carolina, United States of America (Williams,
1974; Perschbacher and Schwartz, 1979;
Williams and Williams, 1981).
Callinectes danae Smith, 1809
Description: Williams, 1984:367, figs. 293d,
295.
Type-locality: Recife [==Pernambuco, Estado
de Pernambuco], Brazil.
Distribution: Bermuda; New Hanover County,
North Carolina, near Cape Fear, rare
(Perschbacher and Schwartz, 1979); southern
Florida and eastern side of Yucatan Peninsula
to Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856)
Description: Williams, 1984:369, figs. 293e,
296.
Type-locality: Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
Distribution: Duval County, east of
Jacksonville, Florida (rarely) to Santa Catarina,
Brazil; Veracruz, Mexico; Bermuda; also
reported from extreme southern Texas
(Williams, 1984).
Callinectes larvatus Ordway, 1863
Description: Williams, 1984:371, figs. 293a,
297.
Type-locality: Key West, Florida; Tortugas;
Bahama Islands; Haiti.
Distribution: Beaufort, North Carolina,
through Caribbean Sea to south central Brazil
off Sao Paulo; Bermuda. North Carolina
records rare (Williams, 1974; Perschbacher and
Schwartz, 1979). Florida (intertidal) (personal
communication, P. M. Mikkelsen).
Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863
Description: Williams, 1984:373, figs. 293c,
298.
Type-locality: Charleston, South Carolina;
Gonaives, Haiti; Cumana, Venezuela; Tortugas
and Bahamas also listed in original description.
Distribution: Bermuda; Virginia, North and
South Carolina through southern Florida;
northwestern Yucatan to Estado de Sao Paulo,
Brazil (Williams, 1984).
Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896
Description: Williams, 1984:376, figs. 293g,
299.
Type-locality: East coast of United States.
Distribution: Occasionally Nova Scotia,
Maine, and northern Massachusetts, to
northern Argentina, Bermuda, and the Antilles;
Resund, Denmark; the Netherlands and
adjacent North Sea; northwest and southwest
France; Golfo di Genova; northern Adriatic;
Aegean, western Black, and eastern
Mediterranean Sea; Lake Hamana-ko, central
Japan (Williams, 1984).