STOMATOPODA 



By Fenner a. Chace, Jr., United States National Museum 



The stomatopod fauna of the Gulf of Mexico is 

 very poorly known. There are several records 

 from Key West and the Dry Tortugas, some from 

 the west coast of Florida between Tampa Bay 

 and Sanibel Island, as well as from the northern 

 Gulf between Pensacola and Grand Isle, and a few 

 from Galveston, the Gulf of Campeche, and 

 Campeche Bank. In view of the limited collect- 

 ing it is surprising to find as many as 13 species 

 of stomatopods from the Gulf recorded in the 

 literature. Preliminary e.xamination of material 

 recently added to the national collections, espe- 

 cially from the dredgings of the M/V Oregon of the 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, indicates that several 

 species will be added when the study of this ma- 

 terial is finally completed. 



The following list of species and the accompany- 

 ing bibliography have been compiled largely from 

 a manuscript synonymy of the stomatopods pre- 

 pared and kindly made available by Dr. L. B. 

 Holthuis of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke 

 Historic, Leiden, Holland. Without access to 

 this invaluable summary of stomatopod literature 

 the present survey would undoubtedly be less 

 complete. 



STOMATOPODS KNOWN FROM THE GULF 

 OF MEXICO 



Gonodactylus oerstedii Hansen, 1892. 



Bigelow (1894); Gibbes (1850); McClendon (1911); 

 Pearse (1932); Schmitt (1940); Sharp (1893). 



Off Havana; Key West; Dry Tortugas. Also North 

 Carolina and Bermudas to Brazil; Gulf of California to 

 Ecuador. 



Lysiosquilla excavatrix Brooks, 1886. 



Anonymous (1942); Lunz (1935). 



West of Charlotte Harbor, Florida (28 fathoms) ; 

 Mobile, Alabama; Grand Isle, Louisiana. Also North 

 Carolina. 



Lysiosquilla scabricauda (Lamarck, 1818). 



Anonymous (1942); Bigelow (1894); Lunz (1937); 

 Sharp (1893). 



Key West, Sanibel Island, Johns Pass, and Pensacola, 

 Florida; Grand Isle, Louisiana; Galveston, Texas. Also 

 New England to Brazil; West Africa. 



Odontodactylus havanensis (Bigelov/, 1893). 



Bigelow (1893, 1894); Lunz (1937); Rathbun (1920). 



Off Havana, Cuba; Key West; Dry Tortugas; Campeche 

 Bank. Also Bahamas; Curasao. 



Odontodactylus nigricaudatus Chace, 1942. 



Chace (1942). 

 Gulf of Campeche. 



Pseudosquilla ciliata (Fabricius, 1787). 



Lunz (1937). 



Key West. Also Bermudas, Bahamas, and Florida 

 Keys to Brazil; Indo- Pacific. 



Squilla edentata (Lunz, 1937). 

 Lunz (1937). 

 West-southwest of Pensacola, Florida (120 fathoms). 



Squilla empusa Say, 1818. 



Anonymous (1942); Bigelow (1893, 1894); Faxon (1896); 

 Lunz (1937); Rathbun (1893); Sharp (1893). 



Sanibel Island and Pensacola, Florida; Grand Isle, 

 Louisiana; Galveston Bay, Texas; northern Campeche 

 Bank (84 fathoms). Also New England to Brazil; West 

 Africa. 



Squilla intermedia Bigelow, 1893. 



Bigelow (1893, 1894). 



Off Mississippi Delta (68 fathoms). Also Little Bahama 

 Bank; Puerto Rico. 



Squilla neglecta Gibbes, 1850. 



Lunz (1937). 



Sanibel Island, Florida. Also North and South Carolina. 



Squilla rugosa Bigelow, 1893. 



Bigelow (1893, 1894). 



Off Charlotte Harbor, Florida. Also Isle of Pines, 

 Cuba (subspecies ?). 



Squilla, sp. [S. prasinolineata Miers, 1880, not Dana, 

 1852]. 

 Ives (1891). 

 Silam, Yucatdn. Also Brazil. 



The present limited knowledge of the dis- 

 tribution of stomatopods, both within the Gulf of 

 Mexico and elsewhere, does not permit any 

 definite zoogeographical conclusions. Five of the 

 thirteen species recorded from the Gulf {Gono- 

 dactylxLS oerstedii, Lysiosquilla glabriuscula, L. 

 scabricauda, Pseudosquilla ciliata, and Squilla 

 empusa) are known to have extensive ranges, at 

 least from the Carolinas to Brazil. Three of these 



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