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Table 2. — Continued. 



"Previously observed. 

 "Previously observed in adjacent regions of the Caribbean Sea and/or the Gulf of Mexico, and adjacent regions of the Pacific Ocean (see 

 Alvarirto, 1971 compilation of distributional data). 



Species present at few locations in the surveyed 

 region of the Caribbean and Pacific were, L. hot- 

 spur, Abyla haeckeli, and A. acaule. Lensia 

 hotspur and A. acaule were only found at one 

 location to the north off the entrance of the 

 Panama Canal in the Caribbean, and west 

 of the Peninsula de Nicoya in the Pacific (Fig- 

 ures 15, 18). Abyla haeckeli was observed once 

 off Costa de Mosquitos, Caribbean Sea, and at 

 one location off Punta Guiones in the Pacific 

 (Figure 17). 



Species present once or at few locations in 

 the Pacific region were, L. cossack, S. monoica, 

 Abyla schmidti, C. dentata, Melophysa melo, 

 A. rosacea, and Stephanomia bijuga (Figures 

 15-19). 



Lensia subtilis and L. fowleri were found only 

 once each, respectively at few miles north of the 

 entrance to the Panama Canal, and off Huani 

 in the Caribbean (Figures 11, 15). 



The information presented here should be 

 considered only as a basis for future and more 



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