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Geographic and depth range: Lagonoy Gulf, east of southern Luzon, to west of Halmahera, Indonesia, 
527-567 m (Chace 1986). Tlie record from the Verde Island Passage at 636 m represents a slight range 
and depth extension for this species. 
Family Opiophoridae 
Acanthephyra eximia Smith, 1884 
Geographic and depth range: Western and Eastern Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Indian and 
Pacific Oceans from east Africa to Japan, Hawaii, eastern Pacific seamounts; 200-4700 m (Chace 1986). 
Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp, 1939 
Geographic and depth range: Indian and Pacific Oceans from east Africa to mid-Pacific, northeastern 
Pacific, 27-1463 m, undergoes vertical migration (Chace 1986). 
Janicella spinicauda (A. Milne-Edwards, 1883) 
Geographic and depth range: Pantropical except for eastern Pacific, 300-1500 m (Chace 1986, Pequenat 
and Wicksten 2006). 
Systellaspis debilis (A. Milne-Edwards, 1881) 
Geographic and depth range: Eastem and western Atlantic from Greenland to South Africa, Gulf of 
Mexico, Indian and west Pacific Oceans from eastem Africa to Hawaii, not reported from eastem Pacif¬ 
ic; 150-800 m, may migrate vertically (Chace 1986). 
Family Pandalidae 
Heterocarpus dorsalis Bate, 1888 
Geogi'aphic and depth range: Indian and western Pacific Oceans from eastem Africa to Indonesia, 
Philippines, Jana, New Caledonia and western Samoa, 185-1400 m (Chace 1985). 
Heterocarpiis gihhosus Bate, 1888 
Geographic and depth range: Indian and western Pacific Oceans from eastern Africa to Indonesia, 
Philippines, New Hebrides, Fiji and Tonga, 247-1280 m (Chace 1985). 
Heterocarpus sibogae De Man, 1917 
Geographic and depth range: Indian and western Pacific, Andaman Sea to southern Japan, south to Vic¬ 
toria, Australia; east to Fijis and western Samoa, 247-700 m (Chace 1985). 
Heterocarpus woodtnasoni Alcock, 1901 
Geographic and depth range: Indian Ocean from Andaman Sea to Soutii China Sea and Philippines, 
291-655 m (Chace 1985). 
Plesionika edwardsii (Brandt, 1851) 
Geographic and depth range: Western and eastem Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, 
Indonesia, Philippines (Chace 1985). 
Plesionika hsuehyui Chan, 2004 
Geogi'aphic and depth range: Western Pacific from New Caledonia to Taiwan, east to Tonga, 200-806 m 
(Chan 2004). Previously reported by Chace (1985) from Philippines as P rostricrescentis (Bate, 1888) 
(in part, see Chan 2004). 
Plesionika orientalis Chace, 1985 
Geographic and depth range: Philippine Islands from north of Luzon to Sulu Archipelago, Indonesia, 
247-686 m (Chace 1985). 
Procletes levicarina (Bate, 1888) 
Geographic and depth range: Indian and western Pacific Oceans from Red Sea to Indonesia, South 
China Sea and Philippines, 31-393 m (Chace 1985, as Heterocarpoides levicarina). 
Family Pasiphaeidae 
Glyphiis marsupialisViVaoY, 1884 
Geographic and depth range: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, western Africa, Indo-West Pacific, eastem 
Pacific, 500-1160 m (Crosnier and Forest 1973, World Register of Marine Species {www.marine- 
species.org), Scripps Institution of Oceanography unpubl. records) 
Pasiphaea Japonica Omori, 1976 
Geographic and depth range: Indo-West Pacific from South Africa to Indonesia, Japan, and Taiwan, to 
1098 m (Komai et al. 2012). This is the first report of the species from the Phihppines. 
