VALVIFERA 251 



Vandeloscia Roman, 1977 

 Vandeloscia culebrae (Moore, 1901) 

 Figure 106M 



DIAGNOSIS 6 5.0 mm, 9 6.1 mm. Tiny lateral tubercles present on per- 

 eonites. Endopod of pleopod 1 in 6 with small scalelike subapical process on 

 laterally folded tip. 



RECORDS Florida Keys; U.S. Virgin Islands; Puerto Rico; under decaying 

 plant material, especially Thalassia testudinea accumulated along beach drift 

 line. 



Vandeloscia riedli (Strouhal, 1966) 

 Figure 106N 



DIAGNOSIS S 5.9 mm, 9 6.0 mm. Tiny obsolete tubercles present on all 

 pereonites. Endopod of 6 pleopod 1 with large scalelike subapical process on 

 laterally folded tip. 



RECORDS Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; Ambergris Cay, Belize; Barbuda; 

 Venezuela; Brazil. 



Gulf of Aqaba; Red Sea; northeastern coast of Africa; Madagascar; Bay of 

 Bengal; St. Helena Is. 



Suborder Valvifera Sars, 1882 



DIAGNOSIS Pereopodal coxae, in addition to usual dorsal coxal plates, ex- 

 panded ventrally to form plates. Penes situated ventrally on articulation be- 

 tween pereon and pleon, or on pleonite 1. Pleonites and pleotelson variously 

 fused. Uropods forming operculum covering over pleopods. 



Key to families of Valvifera 



1. Body often geniculate, flexed between pereonites 4 and 5; anterior 

 pereopods setose for feeding, posterior pereopods ambulatory 



Arcturidae 



Body never geniculate; all pereopods ambulatory Idoteidae p ^^^ 



