B (A) Without transverse shelf or depression on carapace behind orbit; leg joints not 



red on large cheliped U. pugnax 



Figure 1 11. — Vcu pii^iiax: A. chela of male, inner view; B. carapace and eyes. 



ANNOTATED SYSTEMATIC LIST 



This check list is arranged in a systematic hierar- 

 chy accommodating categories from order to species, 

 with genera arranged alphabetically under family 

 and species under genus. Notes on distribution, 

 habitat, and general occurrence are given. Refer- 

 ences to important works are cited. Depths are 

 rounded to 5-m intervals, except those below 5 m. 



Class CRUSTACEA 



Order DECAPODA 



Suborder NATANTIA 



Section PENAEIDEA 

 Family SERGESTIDAE 



Lucifer faxoni Borradaile, 1915. Nova Scotia to 

 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; primarily in coastal 

 waters. Surface to 90 m (Bowman and Mc- 

 Cain, 1967). 

 Famu V PENAEIDAE 



Parapenaeus longirostris (Lucas, 1849). 

 Martha's Vineyard, Mass., to Gulf of Mex- 

 ico off Florida, Louisiana, and peninsula de 

 Yucatan; Gulf of Paria off Venezuela; coast 

 of Portugal to Morocco; Mediterranean Sea 

 from Spain to Asia Minor. 25-350 m in west- 

 em Atlantic ; to 460 m in Mediterranean. Rare 

 in north (Williams, 1965). 



Pendens (Melicertus) aztecus aztecus Ives, 

 1891. Brown shrimp. West Falmouth Harbor 

 and Martha's Vineyard, Mass., tooffSanibel 

 Island, Fla. ; Appalachicola Bay around Gulf 

 of Mexico to northwestern Estado de 

 Yucatan. Fished commercially. Shallows to 



110 m, occasionally 165 m. Summer and fall in 

 north, rare (Perez Farfante, 1969). 

 Penaeus (Litopenaeus) setiferus (Linnaeus, 

 1767). White shrimp. Fire Island, N.Y.. to St. 

 Lucie Inlet, Fla.; mouth Ochlockonee River 

 [Franklin County], Fla., to northwestern Es- 

 tado de Yucatan. Fished commercially. Shal- 

 lows to 35 m, occasionally to 85 m. Summer in 

 north, rare (Perez Farfante, 1969). 



Section CARIDEA 

 Family PASIPHAEIDAE 



Pasiphaeci multidentata Esmark. 1866. North- 

 em Atlantic; western Norway to Mediterra- 

 nean Sea; Iceland; Greenland; Cape Breton 

 Island to Cape Cod. 10 (rarely) to 2,000 m 

 (Sivertsen and Holthuis. 1956). 

 Family PALAEMONIDAE 



Leander tenuicornis (Say, 1818). Tropical and 

 subtropical waters of world except west coast 

 of Americas; Newfoundland Banks, Bay of 

 Fundy, and New England to Falkland Islands 

 in western Atlantic. Floating Scirgassum, 

 pilings, and submerged vegetation (Chace, 

 1972). 



Palaemonetes (Palaemonetes) intermedins 

 Holthuis, 1949. Long Island, N.Y., to Port 

 Aransas, Tex. (and literature records from 

 Vineyard Sound, Mass.). Estuaries, espe- 

 cially in submerged vegetation (Holthuis, 

 1952). 



Palaemonetes (Palaemonetes) pugio Holthuis, 

 1949. Newcastle, Me., and Yarmouth, Nova 

 Scotia, to Port Aransas, Tex. (literature re- 



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