6 - Sphaeromatidae::“Cute As Buttons”

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RECORDS Egmont Key, Florida, 18.3-36.6 m; Looe Key, Florida, 0.5-12
m; Dry Tortugas; Turks and Caicos Islands, 1 m; Puerto Rico, intcrtidal to
1.5 m; Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, intertidal to 1.5 m; St.Thomas and St.John's,
U.S. Virgin Islands; Cozumel, Mexico.
REMARKS Menzies and Glynn (1968) recorded this species as M. decorata
from Puerto Rico, while Menzies and Kruczynski (1983) recorded it as M.
Jloridensis.
Mesanthura punctillata Kensley, 1982
Figures 19C, 22A-F
DIAGNOSIS 9: 6.4 mm. Pigment in solid patch between eyes, rest of pig­
ment on pereon and pleon with chromatophores scattered, diffuse, not in any
regular pattern. Mandibular palp article 3 with seven spines. Maxilliped
lacking endite; terminal palp article semicircular. Pereopod 1 propodal palm
with step. 6: 4.5 mm. Antennular flagellum of 10 articles.
RECORDS Turks and Caicos Islands, 1 m; Carrie Bow Cay, 0.2-20 m.
Mesanthura reticulata Kensley, 1982
Figures 19D, 22G-J
DIAGNOSIS 9 6.1 mm. Dorsal pigment pattern a network of
chromatophores arranged in fine lines. Mandibular palp article 3 with six
spines. Maxilliped lacking endite. Pereopod 1 propodal palm with step.
RECORDS Carrie Bow Cay, 10-24 m.
Minyanthura Kensley, 1982
DIAGNOSIS Mandible lacking molar and palp. Maxillipedal palp of five ar­
ticles; large apically acute endite present. Pereopods 4-7, carpi rectangular.
Pleopod 1, both rami forming operculum. Pleonites 1-5 fused; pleonite 6
fused with telson, not dorsally demarked. Telson with two basal statocysts.
Minyanthura corallicola Kensley, 1982
Figure 23
DIAGNOSIS 9: 1.7 mm. Antennular flagellum of one article. Antennal