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Figure 11. — Distribution of Lensia challengeri and Lensia fowleri in the regions adjacent 



to the Panama Canal. 



shore locations off Huani, Nicaragua, off Puerto 

 Colombia and Cartagena de Indias, and east to 

 the entrance of the Panama Canal. In the Pacific 

 region it was only missing at the northernmost 

 station in the Gulf of Panama, south of Peninsula 

 de Azuero, south of Coiba Island, off Gulf of 

 Nicoya, and ofFPunta Arenas and Punta Guiones 

 (Costa Rica) (Figure 12). 



Diphyes dispar and Diphyopsis mitra 

 appeared abundantly distributed in the Pacific 

 region, and only in two locations in the Carib- 

 bean. Diphyes dispar was present off Colombia 

 and off Laguna Perlas (Nicaragua), and Diphyop- 

 sis mitra at two locations a few miles north 

 of Panama (Figures 12, 13). 



Abylopsis eschscholtzi was only absent at a 

 few stations in the Caribbean and in the Central 

 American Pacific (Figure 14). 



Species scattered distributed in both the Carib- 

 bean and the Pacific regions were Eudoxoides 

 spiralis, A. tetragona, S. chuni, A. okeni, and 

 E. hyalinum. Eudoxides spiralis was present only 

 at five Caribbean locations, which include two 

 stations off Nicaragua and three off the entrance 

 to the Panama Canal, and in the Pacific appeared 

 at two stations southeast of Peninsula de Azuero 



and at two offshore stations west of Costa Rica 

 (Figure 13). 



Abylopsis tetragona appeared off Colombia 

 and near the entrance of the Panama Canal in 

 the Caribbean, and south of the Azuero Peninsula, 

 south of Coiba Island, west of Nicoya Peninsula, 

 and at one offshore station west of Costa Rica in 

 the Pacific (Figure 14). 



Sulculeolaria chuni was observed at three 

 locations over the deepest part of the western 

 Caribbean, and in the Gulf of Panama, south of 

 Nicoya Peninsula, and at two offshore stations 

 west of Costa Rica in the Pacific (Figure 16). 



Agalma okeni was found once in the Caribbean 

 region (off Costa de Mosquitos, Nicaragua), and 

 in the Pacific regions appeared from the Azuero 

 Peninsula to Coiba Island, south of Costa Rica 

 and west of Nicoya Peninsula (Figure 19). 



Enneagonum hyalinum was only observed at 

 the western Caribbean, and at several locations in 

 the Pacific extending northwestwards from Coiba 

 Island (Figure 17). 



Species scattered distributed in the surveyed 

 region of the Central American Pacific were, S. 

 quadrivalvis, S. turgida, B. bassensis, and H. 

 hippopus (Figures 16-18). 



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