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of all species included in this table will be found 

 in Hedgpeth (1948). Some corrections in the 

 troublesome genus Callipallene have been sug- 

 gested by Stock (1952). 



Table 1. — Distribution of Pycnogonida occurring in the Gulf of Mexico 



coast between Georgia and Rhode Island, are 

 shore or buoy collections. The species is also 

 known from Brazil. 



These distributional relationships are best sum- 

 marized in tabular form. Descriptions and figures 



Species 



Nymphon ftOTidavum Hedgpeth 



Callipallene pliaiitoma (Dohrn) 



Callipallene hreriroslris (Johnston). 

 Pallenopsis sell mitti Hedgpeth 



Halosoma rohastum (Dohrn) 



Avoplodacli/lus petiolatus (Kr0yer). 



Anoplodactylus pygmaens (Hodge). 



Anoplodaclylus lentus Wilson 



Anoplodadylus insignia (Hoek) 



Anoplodacfylus lypttlops Sars 



Anoplodaetyhts polignaei Bouvier 



Anoplodaelylns evelinae Marcus 



Anoplodaetyliis quadratispinosjis Hedgpeth. 



Anoplodaclylus slyUroslris Hedgpeth 



Anoplodaclylus pectinus Hedgpeth 



Endeis spinosa (Montagu) 



Aclielia sarvayai Marcus. 



Achelia sp.' 



Ammothella rugulosa (Verrill).. 



Ammothella marcusi Hedgpeth 



Nymphopsis duodOTSOspinosa Hilton.. 



Ascorhynchus lalipes (Cole).. 

 Ascorbynclius colei Hedgpeth. 

 Kurycyde raphiaster Loman,, 



Tanystyhim orbiculare Wilson 



Pentacolossendeis retictdata Hedgpeth. 

 Pycnogonum reliculatum Hedgpeth — 



Gulf of Mexico 



Tortugas, northeast 



corner. 

 Tortugas. - 



Tampa, Fla. 



Tortugas.. 



.do. 



Texas coast, sargas- 



sum. 

 Texas coast, buoy 



fouling. 

 Tortugas, northeast 



corner. 

 Tortugas, Sanibel, 



northeast. 



Tortugas 



Sombrero Key 



TortugaS- . - 



Key West 



Tortugas 



do.. - 



do 



do 



Texas 



Texas, Tortugas.. 



Tortugas 



do 



do 



Florida Keys.. 

 Tortugas 



Texas (sargassum) . 



Florida Keys 



Tortugas, Key West. 



West Indies and 

 Caribbean 



Puerto Rico, Bahamas, 

 Colombia. 



Yucatan. 



Bahamas. 



Hispaniola, Puerto 

 Rico, Panama. 



Colombia, Venezuela.. 



Hispaniola, Bahamas. 

 do 



Hispaniola, Bahamas, 

 Colombia. 



Atlantic 



Norway-Azores. _ _ 



Norway; Portugal; 



Woods Hole; Virginia. 



East coast, Florida 



Brazil. _ _ 



Norway-France, Brazil.. 



Norfolk, Va., England, 



Brazil. 

 Florida- Woods Hole 



Bermuda, Brazil. 



Norway, Ireland. 



Cape Verde 



Brazil 



Florida-Woods Hole; 

 Norway-France; Bra- 

 zil. 



Brazil. 



Bermuda, Brazil. 



North Carolina (Folly 

 River). 



Virginia-Woods 

 Brazil. 



Hole, 



Elsewhere 



Naples, Black 

 Sea. 



Mediterranean. 

 Naples 



.do. 



Mediterranean, 

 Black Sea. 



Galapagos, 

 Baja Calif. 



Cape Verde. 



El Salvador. 



Depth 



(fathoms) 



Surface— 5. 



Shore. 



20-155. 



Shore. 

 To 43. 



Shallow water. 



Shore— 150. 



3-48. 



To 582. 

 Shore?. 

 Shore. 



Shore. 

 3-10. 

 Surface— 38. 



Shore— 25. 



Shore. 



Do. 

 Shore— 10. 



Shore. 

 Shore— 80. 

 Shore. 



Shore— 15. 



98-100. 

 Shore. 



' An immature form, taken with plankton net from the south Jetty at Port Aransas, Tex. Cited here because it indicates the occurrence of this genus in 

 the western Gulf. 



LITERATURE CITED 



GuppT, H. B. 



1917. Plants, seeds and currents in the West Indies and 



Azores. 531 pp., front., 3 maps. London: Williams 



and Norgate. 

 Hedgpeth, Joel W. 



1947. On the evolutionary significance of the Pycnogo- 

 nida. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 106 (18): 1-53, 16 

 figs., 1 pi. 



1948. The Pycnogonida of the western North Atlantic 

 and the Caribbean. Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus. 97: 157- 

 342, figs. 4-53, charts 1-3. 



Stock, J. H. 



1952. Revision of European representatives of the 

 genus Callipailene Flynn, 1929. Beaufortia, No. 13: 

 1-14, 27 figs. 



TiMMERMANN, G. 



1932. Biogeographische Untersuchungen tiber die Le- 

 bensgemeinschaft des treibenden Golfkrautes. Zeit- 

 schr. Morph. und Oeiiol. Tiere 25: 288-355, 10 figs. 



