104 ASELLOTA • STENETRIIDAE 



ticulate bands; distinctive open patches on cephalon and pereonite 1; pleon 

 with two broad transverse bands. 



RECORDS Looe Key, Florida, 0.5-6 m; Turks and Caicos Islands, 1 m; 

 Jamaica; Puerto Rico, intertidal to 3 m; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; 

 Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, intertidal to 15 m. 



Stenetrium spathulicarpus Kensley, 1984 

 Figure 47A-C 



DIAGNOSIS 6 4.1 mm, 9 4.1 mm. Rostrum truncate. 6: Pereopod 1, merus 

 and ischium each with setose fingerlike anterodistal projection; carpus with 

 large spatulate and setose lobe almost reaching level of palm; propodal palm 

 with large outer tooth and four or five low rounded teeth, broad band of setae 

 near anterior margin; dactylus reaching slightly beyond palm, with band of 

 setae along anterior margin. 9: Propodal palm straight, with row of slender 

 spines; band of setae in similar position as in 6 . Color: pigment in ill-defined 

 and scattered reticulation; strong band on cephalon between eyes. 



RECORDS Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, intertidal to 36 m; Puerto Rico, 

 intertidal. 



Stenetrium stebbingi Richardson, 1902 

 Figure 47 D-H 



DIAGNOSIS S 4.8 mm, ovigerous 9 4.1 mm. Rostrum truncate. Ommatidia 

 of eye more bunched than in S. spathulicarpus. 6: Pereopod 1 variable accord- 

 ing to maturity; carpus produced posterodistally into narrowly triangular, 

 apically acute lobe; propodal palm poorly defined, with group of two to four 

 teeth near dactylar articulation. 9: Pereopod 1, palm straight, defined by 

 strong outer tooth and bearing row of six or seven low rounded tubercles. 

 Color: irregular reticulation of red-brown pigment, no strong band between 

 eyes. 



RECORDS Bermuda, 0.5-4 m; Florida Keys, 18.3 m; Bahamas, 5 m; Turks 

 and Caicos Islands, 1 m; Cuba; Jamaica; U.S. Virgin Islands, 50 m; Carrie 

 Bow Cay, Belize, 0.5-36 m; Gulf of Mexico. 



