ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN PYCNOGONIDA—-HEDGPETH 173 
Thanks to the investigations of the Vanneau along the coast of 
Morocco, the recently published papers on the collections of the 
Talisman (Bouvier, 1937), and Président Théodore-Tissier (Kage, 
1942), and to other records, 24 or 25 species of pyenogonids have been 
identified from the west coast of Africa north of the Equator. Olsen’s 
description of Nymphon longituberculatus in the Michael Sars Report 
(1913) seems to have been overlooked by other workers. Nymphon 
cognatum Loman (1928b) is very similar to Olsen’s species and may 
be the same. The deep-water species included in the list above were 
all taken between the coast of Africa and the Canaries or the Azores. 
BERMUDA 
The collections from Bermuda are not altogether satisfactory, yet 
there is reason to believe that the littoral pycnogonids of that island 
are well represented in the collections. Both Verrill and Cole, who 
were especially interested in the sea spiders, collected extensively at 
Bermuda. With the exception of material that may be buried in the 
collections of the New York Zoological Society, I have seen all the 
museum material from Bermuda and have been advised by Dr. Isabella 
Gordon that the British Museum has no collections of pycnogonids 
from the island. The known species from Bermuda are: 
Anoplodactylus insignis Ammothella rugulosa 
Anoplodactylus parvus Tanysiylum calicirostre 
Achelia gracilis Endeis spinosa 
As might be expected, most of these species are found on the coast 
of the United States or in the Caribbean. Tanystylum calicirostre, 
however, is yet to be found in the Caribbean, although its occurrence 
in Bermuda and the Gulf of Panama suggests its presence there. 
There appears to be no endemic species in Bermuda. Although 
Giltay’s (1934b) record of Achelia gracilis from the Bahamas is not 
supported by the collections examined, the species is found on the 
Florida coast. The absence of Anoplodactylus petiolatus is curious in 
view of its wide distribution on the sargassum, but it is possible that 
Giltay’s A. parvus is a form of that species. In any event, the species 
is rare in Bermuda, or else it has been overlooked. In view of the 
distribution of various small species on both sides of the Atlantic, it 
is strange that more of them have not been found at Bermuda. 
An additional species, Calypsopycnon georgiae, may be from Ber- 
muda. It is known only from an unlabeled slide mount found in the 
collections of A. E. Verrill, which he may have collected on one of 
his trips to Bermuda, although it is equally possible that it may have 
been taken from an Albatross dredge collection. 
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