to Sandy Hook, N.J.; northwestern 

 Europe to Belgium and Isle of Man. 65-535 

 m (Rathbun. 1929). 

 SUPERF.AMILV HIPPIDEA 



Family HIPPIDAE 



Emcrita talpoida (Say, 1817). Mole crab, 

 sand bug. Barnstable County, Mass., to 

 east coast of Florida; west coast of Florida 

 to Grand Isle, La.; Progreso, Yucatan. 

 Wave washed sandy beaches and below 

 surf line to 3.5 m (Williams, 1965). 



Section BRACHYURA 

 Subsection DROMIACEA 

 Family HOMOLIDAE 



Homola harhata (Fabricius, 1793). Off 

 southeastern Massachusetts to Caribbean 

 Sea; eastern Atlantic from Portugal and 

 Azores to Madeira Islands; Mediterranean 

 Sea; South Africa. 55-685 m (Williams, 

 1965). 

 Subsection OXYSTOMATA 

 Family DORIPPIDAE 

 Ethusa microphthalmu Smith, 1881. Off 

 Martha's Vineyard, Mass., to west 

 Florida, and Cuba. 110-575 m (Rathbun, 

 1937). 

 Family LEUCOSIIDAE 

 Persephona aqiiilonaris Rathbun, 1937. New 

 Jersey to Estado de Campeche, Mexico. 

 37-55 m (Guinot-Dumortier, 1959). 

 Family CALAPPIDAE 

 Acanthocarpiis ale.xandri Stimpson, 1871. 

 Georges Bank to west coast of Florida; 

 Puerto Rico to Grenadines; Brazil. 70-380 

 m (Williams, 1965). 

 Subsection BRACHYGNATHA 

 SUPERFAMILY OXYRHYNCHA 

 Family MAJIDAE 

 Subfamily OREGON UN AE 

 Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758). West 

 Greenland; Labrador to Rhode Is- 

 land; between Greenland and Iceland, 

 through British Isles and northwest 

 France to Spitzbergen and west Kara 

 Sea. < 1-360 m, usually <50 m, hard 

 and soft bottom (Christiansen, 1969). 

 Hyas coarctatus Leach, 1815. Typical 

 subspecies from Labrador to North 

 Carolina; between Greenland and Ice- 

 land, through British Isles, southwest- 

 ern and northwestern France, to 



Spitzbergen and eastern Barents Sea. 

 < 1-500 m, usually <50 m, hard and 

 soft bottom (Christiansen, 1969). 

 Subfamily INACHINAE 

 Colhdes rohustus Smith, 1881. South of 

 Nantucket, Mass., to off Cape 

 Hatteras, N.C. 90-685 m (Rathbun, 

 1925). 

 Euprognathu rasteUifera Stimpson, 

 1871. Off Georges Bank to southern 

 Gulf of Mexico; West Indies to Gre- 

 nada and Barbados. 25-710 m. Rath- 

 bun (1925) recognized a blunt spined 

 northern subspecies, A?;«/7/7«f. ranging 

 from New England to the Florida 

 Keys (Williams, 1965). 

 Subfamily PISINAE 

 Lihinia diihia H. Milne Edwards, 1834. 

 Cape Cod, Mass., to southern Texas; 

 Bahamas and Cuba. Ocean and high 

 salinity estuaries on a variety of sub- 

 strates from low tide mark to 45 m 

 (Williams, 1965). 

 Lihinia emarginata Leach, 1815. Wind- 

 sor, Nova Scotia, to western Gulf of 

 Mexico. Ocean and high salinity es- 

 tuaries on a variety of substrates from 

 near low tide mark to 50 m, rarely to 

 125 m (Williams, 1965). 

 Pclia miitica (Gibbes, 1850). Buzzards 

 Bay and Vineyard Sound, Mass., to 

 west coast of Florida; Cuba to St. 

 Thomas. Estuarine and oceanic sublit- 

 toral on coarse substrate and en- 

 crusted pilings, low water mark to 50 m 

 (Williams, 1965). 

 Family PARTHENOPIDAE 

 Heterocrypta granidata (Gibbes, 1850). 

 Nantucket Sound, Mass., to Georgia; 

 Florida Straits to Sabine, Tex.; through 

 West Indies to Trinidad. Shingle and 

 shelly substrate of estuarine and oceanic 

 littoral, 3.5-135 m (Williams, 1965). 

 Parthenope (Platylamhrus) pourtalesii 

 (Stimpson, 1871). Off Martha's Vine- 

 yard, Mass., through West Indies to 

 Grenada. Predominantly on sand or 

 sandy mud, 20-250 m (Williams, 

 1965). 



SUPERFAMII y brachyrhyncha 

 Family PORTUNIDAE 



Arenaeus aibnirius (Liimarck, 1818). Vine- 



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