CAPRELLIDAE OF WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC 



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Distribution.- — Type-locality: Devonshire Coast, England. 



Other records: Atlantic coast of France, Spain, and Portugal; 

 British Islands; Azores; Atlantic coast of North America from Nova 

 Scotia and Gulf of St. Lawrence to Georgia; Alligator Harbor, St. 

 Georges Sound, and Apalachee Ba}^ Fla.; Galveston, Freeport, 

 Port iVransas, and Port Isabel, Tex.; Safety Islands; Tristan da 

 Cunha and Gough Island; South Africa; California; Hawaii; Kyushu 

 and Honshu, tlapan; Formosa Strait; Hong Kong; New Zealand; 

 New South Wales, Australia. 



New records: Savannah Beach and Sapelo Island, Ga.; Fernandina 

 Beach, Mayport, St. Augustine, Marineland, Ft. Pierce, Key West, 

 Sarasota Bay, Tampa Bay, Dunedin, Panama City, and Destin, 

 Fla.; Ocean Springs, Miss.; Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Remarks. — In Mayer's last two monographs (1890, 1903), he 

 names 20 varieties or fonns of the Caprella acidijrons group. Of 



Figure 16. — Caprella penantis, female; a, lateral view; b, gnathopod 2; c, pereopod 7; d, 



gnathopod 1; e, abdomen. 



