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Type-locality: St. Thomas.
Distribution: Bermuda; Bahamas; south
Florida; Texas; north and south coasts of Cuba;
Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands;
Caribbean coast of Columbia; Pernambuco to
Bahia, Brazil; eastern Atlantic, from Senegal to
Zaire (Powers, 1977)
Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850)
Description: Williams, 1984:459, fig. 368.
Type-locality: Key West, (Florida).
Distribution: Cape Lookout, North Carolina,
to Montevideo, Uruguay; Bermuda;
Mediterranean Sea to northern Angola; eastern
Pacific from California to Peru, Galapagos
Islands (Williams, 1984).
Percnon gibbesi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853)
Description: Williams, 1984*462, fig. 371.
Type-locality: Antilles.
Distribution: Fort Macon, North Carolina;
southern Florida and Bahamas to Brazil;
Bermuda; Azores to Angola; Cape San Lucas,
Baja California, to Chile; Galapagos Islands
(Williams, 1984).
Plagusia depressa (Fabricius, 1775)
Description: Williams, 1984:463, fig. 372.
Type-locality: "In mari mediterraneo"
(erroneous).
Distribution: Beaufort, North Carolina,
through Gulf of Mexico and West Indies to
Pernambuco, Brazil; Bermuda; Azores;
Madeira; Morocco to northern Angola; St.
Helena Island (Chace 1966; Williams, 1984).
Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Description: Chace, 1951:67, figs, la, 2a, d,
g,j,k,l, 3a-h.
Type-locality: "Habitat in Palgi Fuco natante,
supra aquam saepius cursitans".
Distribution: From off eastern North America
(south of Newfoundland) through the eastern
coast of America, Florida to Bahamas; West
Indies.
Platychirograpsus spectabilis DeMan, 1896
Description: Monod, 1956:426, figs. 584-588.
Type-locality: Gabon.
Distribution: Gulf coast of Mexico; west coast
of Florida (Powers, 1977); Gabon.
Sesarma benedicti Rathbun, 1897
Description: Rathbun, 1918:316, pi. 93.--
Abele, 1973:379, figs. 1A, 1G.
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Type-locality: Surinam.
Distribution: Key West, Florida; Guyai i and
Surinam; Brazil (Powers, 1977).
Sesarma cinereum (Bosc, 1802)
Description: Williams, 1984:465, fig. 373.
Type-locality: "La Caroline."
Distribution: Magothy River, Chesapeake Bay,
Maryland, to Palm Beach, east Florida; Collier
County, west Florida, to Veracruz Mexico
(Abele, 1973). Older records from the West
Indies and elsewhere are erroneous (Williams,
1984).
Sesarma curacaoense De Man, 1892
Description: Rathbun, 1918:293, fig. 147, pi.
78: figs. 1, 2, pi. 160: fig. 3.--Abele,
1973:380, figs. 1C, IF.
Type-locality: Curasao.
Distribution: Key West, Florida; south and
southwest Florida; north coast of Cuba;
Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Curasao; Bahia, Brazil
(Powers, 1977).
Sesarma miersii Rathbun, 1897
Description: Abele, 1972a: 166, figs. IB, 1C,
2B, 2C; 1973:380, fig. II.
Type-locality: Bahamas.
Distribution: Bahamas; Key West, Florida;
south coast of Cuba; Swan Island (Caribbean);
Dominica (Powers, 1977).
Sesarma reticulatum (Say, 1817)
Description: Williams, 1984:466, fig. 374.
Type-locality: Muddy salt marshes (east coast
of United States).
Distribution: Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to
Volusia County, east Florida; Sarasota, west
Florida, to Calhoun County, Texas (Abele,
1973).
Sesarma ricordi H. Milne Edwards, 1853
Description: Chace andHobbs, 1969:183, fig.
62k.-Abele, 1973:378, fig. 1 J.
Type-locality: Haiti.
Distribution: Bermuda; Bahamas; southeast
Florida; Florida Keys; west coast of Florida;
north coast of Yucatan; Cuba; Jamica;
Hispaniola; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands to
Trinidad; Curacao; Old Providence Island
(Caribbean); Yucatan to Surinam (Powers,
1977).