FLABELLIFERA • LIMNORIIDAE 193 



RECORDS Flamefish Apogon maculatus: Puerto Rico. Belted cardinalfish Ap- 

 ogon townsendi: Puerto Rico. 



Renocila waldneri Williams and Williams, 1980 

 Figure 85D 



DIAGNOSIS Ovigerous 9 15.3-19.3 mm, 6 5.0-10.8 mm. Posteroventral 

 angle of pereonite 5 moderately produced, of pereonites 6-7 more strongly 

 produced, that of pereonite 7 overlapping pleonites 1 and 2. Pereopods 1-3 

 without swelling on dactyli. Pereopods 6 and 7 subequal in length. Uropodal 

 exopod slightly longer than endopod. Pleotelson basally wider than long; 

 posterior margin broadly and evenly rounded. Color: dorsal surface of body 

 uniform brown; appendages yellowish brown. Attached to dorsum of body 

 close to dorsal fin. 



RECORDS Harlequin bass Serranus tigrinus: Dominican Republic. 



Family Limnoriidae Harger, 1879 



DIAGNOSIS Body ovate in cross section, often becoming more setose posteri- 

 orly. Cephalon subspherical, freely articulating with pereonite 1; eyes lateral. 

 Antennules and antennae well separated at bases. Mandible with strong in- 

 cisor; lacking molar and well-defined lacinia mobilis, but with species- 

 distinctive lacinioid bristle or seta; palp usually of three articles. Maxillipe- 

 dal palp of five articles; endite well developed. Coxae present on pereonites 

 2-7. Pleon consisting of five free pleonites plus pleotelson; latter subcircular, 

 set obliquely to axis of body, usually with anterolateral crests. Uropod with 

 strong protopod inserted ventrolaterally. 



Key to genera of Limnoriidae 



1 . Uropodal rami very unequal 2 



Uropodal rami subequal Paralimnoria 



2. Mandibular incisors possessing rasp and file Limnoria 



Mandibular incisors lacking rasp and file Phycolimnoria 



