GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



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Mediterranean and Black Sea, as well as throughout the Indo-Pacific. One of the 

 Mediterranean species (thori) is also found on the coast of north-west Africa, and 

 another (imperialis) extends southwards along the West African coast to Angola. 

 There is one species found at the Cape. There are no endemic West ,\frica Bothina;. 



ARCTIC CIRCLC. 



TROPIC OFCANCER. 



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TROPIC OF CAPRICORN . 



ANTARCTIC CIRCLE . 



Fig. 2<).- — Diagram illustrating latitudinal range of families and subfamilies of Heterosomata. 



There are eleven genera in the Indo-Pacific, including Bothus and Arnoghssiis, where 

 the subfamily ranges from the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa through the 

 Indian Ocean and .\rchipelago, and right across the Pacific to the west coast of 

 America. In the Pacific the range extends northwards to Japan and southwards to 

 southern Australia and New Zealand. 



