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Checklist of Shallow-Water Marine Malacostracan
Crustacea of Florida
David K. Camp
The list of benthic malacostracan Crustacea includes
most of the described species known from Florida’s estuaries
and nearshore coastal zone to depths of approximately
37 meters, with exceptions noted below.
Most of the list was compiled from previously published
compendia, with taxonomic updates and additions
taken from many widely scattered papers cited
in the References section. Several species were added
from lists of museum holdings, including those of the
Florida Marine Research Institute Marine Specimen
Collection.
The list of Stomatopoda was taken principally from
Manning (1969), Camp (1971), Manning and Camp
(1981), and Camp and Manning (1982, 1986). Farrell
(1979) produced an identification guide to Florida’s
Mysidacea, and Stuck et al. (1979) published a key to
mysidacean species of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
The list of Amphipoda was begun several years ago
by the late Douglas H. Farrell, who gave his list to me.
A few amphipods originally on the list have not appeared
in publications about Florida’s fauna, but were
included by Dr. Farrell based on his observations of
specimens from Florida. Dr. Farrell’s list was augmented
with species from computer records of the
cataloged holdings of the National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution; from lists of cataloged
holdings of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic
Institution Museum; from a list of species identified
from shallow-water sites off Florida by Richard Heard
and Sara LeCroy; and from published works cited
below. Recently published compendia of Amphipoda
include works of McCain (1968), Bousfield (1973), Myers
(1981), Barnard and Barnard (1983), Barnard and Karaman
(1991), Ortiz (1991),Thomas (1993), LeCroy (1995),
Nelson (1995), and Lowry and Stoddart (1997). Many
species described in several smaller papers by J. L.
Barnard, James D.Thomas, and others were added.
The list of Isopoda was derived mainly from
Markham (1978, 1985), Kensley (1980), Menzies and
Kruczynski (1983), Schultz and Johnson (1984), Kensley
and Schotte (1985), and Kensley et al. (1995).
The list of pelagic Euphausiacea was taken from
Mikkelsen (1987). Although neither strictly benthic
nor shallow-water organisms, euphausiaceans that
come to the surface or into shallow water at night were
included in this list because they may be captured by
benthic sampling gear near shore on the east coast of
Florida.
The list of shallow-water Decapoda was extracted
from the larger list of Florida’s decapods published by
Abele and Kim (1986). A few species they inadvertently
omitted plus additional, recently described
species were added, and the taxonomic arrangement
was updated.
Lettered species (e.g.,“Genus name”sp. A) were included
if they met two criteria: 1) the lettered designation
was published in a peer-reviewed journal, and
2) I was confident that voucher material exists and is
retrievable. A few deeper-water species were included
even though there is no published record of their occurrence
from depths as shallow as 37 meters. These
relatively rare species may be found in shallower waters
in the future.
Several taxa are not included in the list for various
reasons.The following orders of marine malacostracan
Crustacea are not treated here: Lophogastrida (cosmopolitan,
oceanic, pelagic swimmers; about 40 species
worldwide); Amphionidacea (monotypic: Amphionides
reynaudii (H. Milne Edwards, 1833), oceanic, pelagic);
and Mictacea (in the western Atlantic, known only
from marine caves in Bermuda and the Guyana Basin)
(Brusca and Brusca, 1990).The hyperiidean amphipods
were not included because they are planktonic. I have
not included the whale lice (Amphipoda: Cyamidae),
although whales sometimes become stranded on
Florida’s coasts. Finally, several shallow-water, benthic
species that live near Florida and could be expected
to occur here are not included in this list. Islandic
species recently described from Cuba and the Bahama
Islands may one day be found in Florida, especially in
the Florida Keys. Shallow-continental-shelf species
from nearby states, such as the mysidacean Pseudomma
heardi Stuck, 1981, known from off Mississippi, or the
pinnotherid crab Gemmotheres chamae (Roberts, 1975),
known from off North Carolina, may also be found here
in the future but are not listed.
The classification of taxa follows that used in the
most recently published works, with exceptions.Within
the Amphipoda, a mixture of proposed classifications
is used, and families are arranged alphabetically within
suborders, as was suggested by the reviewers, because
amphipod taxonomists have not reached a consensus
about the higher classification of that group.
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