FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 86, NO. 1 



SUPERFAMILY PAGUROIDEA 



Family Lithodidae 



Lithodes maja (Linnaeus 1758). Southern limit 

 extended from Sandy Hook, NJ (see Williams 

 1984) to Baltimore Canyon. 



SUPERFAMILY GALATHEOIDEA 



Family Galatheidae 



Munida forceps A. Milne Edwards 1880. 

 Geographic range extended from south of Norfolk 

 Canyon, 36°43.2'N, 74°38.0'W, 252 m (Wenner 

 1952), to Veatch and Lydonia Canyons off south- 

 ern New England, 103-337 m. 



The distinctive color pattern of this species was 

 described on 14 October 1981 from specimens pre- 

 served in formalin 25 July 1981. Carapace (Fig. 

 3), salmon color with lavender submesial spots on 

 gastric region and interrupted U-shaped bands of 

 same color in nested series on mesogastric region, 

 posterior to cephalic groove, and arching across 

 posterior and posterolateral parts. Oblique red 

 lines on lateral wall of carapace below suture, 

 most prominent band along anterior edge, contin- 

 ued dorsally anterior to antennal peduncle and 

 ending on lateral side of supraocular spine. Me- 

 dian band of same intensity on epistome and 

 labium. Paler oblique lateral band on basal an- 

 tennular article. Some flecks of red on merus of 

 chelipeds and cross banding on fingers of some 

 individuals. 



Munida longipes A. Milne Edwards 1880. 

 Northern limit extended from off Cape Lookout, 

 NC (Williams 1984) to Baltimore Canyon. 



Munidopsis cf. transtridens Pequegnat and Pe- 

 quegnat 1971. Munidopsis transtridens is 

 known only from the holotype female taken in the 

 southeastern Gulf of Mexico at 1,280 m. The spec- 

 imens reported here from Baltimore, Hendrick- 

 son, and Lydonia Canyons off New Jersey and 

 southern New England, 906-1,425 m, are all 

 males. They resemble M. transtridens but differ 

 from it in rostral characters (both longer and 

 shorter, variably narrower or broader, in degree 

 of lateral convexity) and in having chelae strik- 

 ingly larger than the slender ones of the holotype. 

 Although these differences may be attributable to 

 sexual dimorphism, provisional identification 

 seems best until more material is available for 

 study. 



Figure 3. — Munida forceps, male. Dorsal view of carapace, dia- 

 grammatic representation of lavender bands on salmon ground 

 color, carapace length 17.7 mm to base of supraocular spine. 



SUPERFAMILY XANTHOIDEA 



Family Goneplacidae 



Chacellus filiformis Guinot 1969. Geographic 

 range extended from the northern Gulf of Mexico 

 east of the Mississippi River Delta and off the east 

 coast of Florida, 328-400 m (Guinot 1969), to Bal- 

 timore and Lydonia Canyons, 160-244 m. 



Goneplacid crabs were driven out of secondary 

 burrows in walls of larger burrows constructed by 

 tilefish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode and 

 Bean, with rotenone. The poison did not kill the 

 crabs but caused them to emerge from the burrow 

 systems enough that they could be collected by 



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