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Range: Both sides of the warmer latitudes of the Atlantic, 

 north and south ; replaced by a close relative in the Pacific. It is 

 plentiful in the Gulf Stream, along the western slope of the 

 Bahamas and is reported from Cuba. > ' e Gulf of Mexico and 

 southern Brazil. No doubt it occurs gi erally throughout the 

 West Indian-Caribbean region and an .id southern Florida. 

 Northward it ranges in summer as far as Massachusetts, south- 

 ward to northern Argentina. 



