CAPRELLIDAE OF WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC 



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Figure 9. — Capulla andrcae, female alloleclotypc; a, abdomen ;t, lateralviewjc, giiathopod2. 



Distribution.— Type-locality: 3S°10' N., 64°20' W. (see remarks). 



Other records: North Sea; Netherlands; Belgium; Portugal; between 

 Portugal and the Azores; Mediterranean coast of Spain; Gulf of Lione; 

 St. Raphael, France; Naples, Italy; Aegean Sea; 38°20' N., 16°04' W.; 

 between Tokyo and Honolulu; Sea of Jajian; Korean Strait; West 

 coast of Kyushu, Japan. 



New records: Algeria; off Casablanca, Morocco; off Martha's 

 Vineyard, Mass.; Ocean City, N.J.; Cape Hatteras and Beaufort, 

 N.C.; off Key West, Fla.; Havana, Cul)a; 43°09' N., 151°52' W. 



Remarks. — Mayer (1890) described this species as a variety of his 

 compound species Caprella acutifrons (see p. 33). This si)ecies is 

 comjxjsed of 20 varieties or forms, many of which should be considered 

 full species by modern criteria (see Dougherty and Steinberg, 1953). 

 C. andreae differs from the other forms of this compound species by 

 the convexity of the propodus of pereopods 5-7. It ap[)ears to be 

 ecologically isolated from the other members of the group by its 

 habit of usually attaching to floating objects such as driftwood, buoys, 

 and i)lants. It has also been found among the incrustations on the 

 backs of the sea turtles, Thalassochelys and Chdonia, which were 



