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Range: From Magdalena Bay, west coast of Lower California, and 

 Consag Rock, Gulf of California, Mexico, to Valparaiso, Chile, including 

 the Revilla Gigedo and Galapagos Islands ; in the Atlantic from Cape 

 Hatteras, North Carolina, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, thence to northwest 

 coast of Africa. Shore to 78 fathoms. Atlantic and Pacific species strictly 

 analogous. 



Stenorynchus debilis (Smith) 

 Plate B, Fig. 7 ; Plate 9 



Leptopodia sagittaria Bell, 1835b, p. 169; 1836, p. 40. Milne Edwards 

 and Lucas, atlas, 1842, pi. 4, figs. 3, 3a-c; 1843, p. 3. Nicolet, 1849, 

 p. 121 (part). A. Milne Edwards, 1878, p. 172 (part). Miers, 

 1886, p. 3 (part). Cano, 1889, pp. 101, 170. (Not L. sagittaria 

 Leach, 1815a, p. 16, pi. 67; not Cancer Sagittarius Fabricius, 1793, 

 p. 442.) 

 Leptopodia debilis Smith, 1871, p. 87. Lockington, 1877c, p. 75. Rath- 

 bun, 1894, p. 44. Faxon, 1895, p. 5. 

 Leptopodia sagittaria var. modesta A. Milne Edwards, 1878, p. 173; 



type locality, Chile; type in Paris Museum. 

 Stenorynchus debilis, Rathbun, 1898, p. 568; 1902b, p. 283; 1910, p. 

 570; 1923b, p. 633; 1924c, p. 377; 1925, p. 18, pis. 4, 5, text-fig. 4. 

 Boone, 1927, p. 131, fig. 34. Finnegan, 1931, p. 617. Crane, 1937, 

 p. 50. Meredith, 1939, p. 106 (figured). Steinbeck and Ricketts, 

 1941, p. 465. Garth, 1946, p. 366, pi. 63, fig. 1 ; 1948, p. 20; 1957, 

 p. 18. Buitendijk, 1950, p. 271. 



Type: Male holotype, M.C.Z. No. 3948, length 29.5 mm, width 

 9.9 mm. 



Type locality: Polvon, Bay of Realejo [Corinto], Nicaragua, J. A. 

 McNiel, collector. 



Localities subsequently reported, with collectors: Mexico: west coast 

 of Lower California: Magdalena Bay and Cape San Lucas, Albatross 

 (Rathbun, 1898) ; Gulf of California: west coast, W. J. Fisher (Lock- 

 ington) ; Patos Anchorage, Fred Baker (Rathbun, 1924c) ; San Lucas 

 Bay, Gorda Banks, Arena Bay, and Santa Inez Bay, Zaca (Crane) ; 

 Tiburon Island (Steinbeck and Ricketts) ; Guaymas Bay, Sonora, M. 

 Cardenas (Buitendijk) ; Bay of Panama: Panama, Vettor Pisani 

 (Cano), F. H. Bradley (Smith), Albatross (Faxon); Perlas Islands, 

 F. H. Bradley (Smith), St. George (Finnegan), Askoy (Garth, 1948) ; 

 Guayabo Chiquito, Askoy (Garth, 1948) ; Colombia: Gorgona Island, 

 St. George (Finnegan), Askoy (Garth, 1948) ; Octavia Bay and Utria 



