DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS — CHACE 



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Distribution: West Africa (Gambia to Angola); Cape Verde Is- 

 lands; St. Helena (new record); Baja California, Mexico (Bahia 

 Magdalena and Cabo de San Lucas); Cocos Island; Galapagos Is- 

 lands. Sublittoral to 225 meters. 



Micropanope rufopunctata (A. Milne-Edwards) 



Figure 8 



Xanthodes refopvndatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1869, p. 409. 



Pilumnus granulimanus Stimpson, 1871, p. 143. 



Micro-panope granulimanus. — Rathbun, 1930, p. 439, pi. 180, figs. 1, 2. 



— Chace, 1956, p. 156. 

 Micropanope rufopunctata. — Monod, 1956, p. 313, figs. 386-392. 



Material: Off Rupert's Bay; buoy cable; 0-75 meters; Jan. 17, 

 1958; 3 males, 1 ovigerous female. — Same; buoy; 0-2 meters; Feb. 2, 

 1959; 1 male, 1 young female. — Same; buoy and cable; 0-75 meters; 

 Mar. 18, 1960; 12 males, 10 females.— Same; Apr. 5, 1962; 2 males, 

 5 females (1 ovigerous) .—Same ; buoy; 0-2 meters; Feb. 11, 1963; 1 

 young female. — James Bay; collected by skindiver; April 1964; 8 

 males, 6 females (2 ovigerous). 



b 



Figure 8. — Micropanope rufopunctata, cephalic aspects of riglit gonopods: a, specimen 

 with carapace length of 5.8 mm. from Rupert's Bay buoy and cable; b, specimen with 

 carapace length of 5.4 mm. from Caracas Bay, Curasao; c, syntype of Xanthodes granosus 

 with carapace length of 6.3 mm. from La Praya, Cape Verde Islands. 



Measm-ements : Carapace lengths of males 2.5-5.8 mm.; of females 

 without eggs, 2.8-7.0 mm.; of ovigerous females, 4.0-6.2 mm. 



Remarks: There is little doubt that the specimens from the Ba- 

 hamas and Curagao that were identified by Rathbun (1930) as Micro- 

 panope granulimanus (Stimpson) belong to this species (compare 

 figure 86 of the gonopod of a Curagao specimen with figure 392 in 



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