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Eight species (Cryptopodia concava, Heterocrypta granulata, Mesorhoea sexspinosa, Parthenopeagona, P. fraterculus, P. serrata, P. granulata, and Solenolambrus tenellusi in five genera of parthenopid crabs were captured in a 28-month systematic sampling program at ten stations (6-73m) along two transects in the Gulf of Mexico on the central western Florida shelf. These collections were supplemented by additional material (including an additional species, Parthenope pourtalesiii, sampled over a two-year period (1973-75) from the continental shelf along the central eastern Florida coast.