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species in Cirrhigaleus, rather than Squalus, follows Shirai (1992) 
and G. H. Burgess (Florida Museum of Natural History, unpublished 
data). 
Acropomatidae 
Symphysanodon berryi Anderson 1970 
The first United States record of the slope bass (UF 38899, 61.3 
mm SL) was collected by trawl at 35°07'N, 75°07'W (R/V Albatross 
IV 82-11, station 23) at a depth of 101-256 m on 16 September 1982. 
Anderson (1970) reported the species from throughout the Caribbean 
and the Bahamas in 220-476 m. Although Symphysanodon is usually 
listed as a lutjanid, there is evidence against this placement. It was 
considered incertae sedis but possibly related to the Acropomatidedae 
(especially Synagrops) by Johnson (1984), and its taxonomic status 
is still uncertain (Johnson 1993). Although Eschmeyer (1990) considered 
it to be in its own family, Symphysanodontidae, Nelson (1994) provisionally 
placed it in the Acropomatidae. 
Synagrops spinosus Schultz 1940 
The keelcheek bass has been collected extensively in the Gulf 
of Mexico in depths >60 m (Hoese and Moore 1977, Potts and Ramsey 
1987, Mochizuki and Gultneth 1989, Boschung 1992), and is also 
known from off Suriname and other Caribbean locations (Fujii 1983, 
Mochizuki and Gultneth 1989), and from scattered locations in the 
West Atlantic and West Pacific (Mochizuki and Gultneth 1989). Records 
of this fish, however, are rare along the United States Atlantic east 
coast. The following trawl collections document the occurrence of 
S. spinosus on the other continental shelf (<200 m) of the South Atlantic 
Bight: UF 41747 (1, 68 mm SL), 35°47'N, 74°53'W in 78 m, 14 
July 1980; GMBL-74-92 (1, 61 mm SL), 35°10'N, 75°03AV in 221- 
229 m, 8 May 1974; GMBL-74-58 (3), 35°02'N, 75°1UW in 238- 
256 m, 8 May 1974; UF 40027 (1, 114 mm SL), 34°52'N, 75°27'W 
(Silver Bay station 1283) in 179 m, 17 September 1959 (Bullis and 
Thompson 1965); UF 39781 (1, 26 mm SL), 34°4UN, 75°37AV (Delaware 
II 83-5, station 313) in 154 m, 14 May 1983; UF 39898 (1, 73 mm 
SL), 34°36'N, 75°39'W (Delaware II 83-5, station 315) in 227 m, 
15 May 1983; UF 39853 (3, 98, 99, 106 mm SL), 34°18'N, 75°50'W 
(Delaware II 83-5, station 317) in 379-402 m, 15 May 1983; UF 
39816 (4, 55, 49, 49, 48 mm SL), 34°07'N, 76°09'W (Delaware II 
83-5, station 323) in 155 m, 16 May 1983; UF 41084 (2, 100, 101 
mm SL), 29°49.6'N, 80°10.8'W in 318 m, 29 May 1984; UF 41229 
(4, 96, 102, 104, 108 mm SL), 28°40.6'N, 79°53.8AV in 320 m, 31 
