Paracerceis sculpta (Holmes, 1904)

Fig. 4A, B

Dynamene sculpta Holmes, 1904: 300-302, pl. 34, figs. 1-7.

Cilicaea sculpta .- Richardson, 1905: 318-319, fig. 349.

Paracerceis sculpta .- Richardson, 1905: 9; Menzies 1962b: 340, 341, fig. 2; Miller 1968: 14, fig. 3.; Brusca et al. 2007: 537, pl. 243.

Note.

Latest synonymies to the species can be found in Martínez-Laiz et al. (2018).

Type locality.

San Clemente Island; San Diego, California.

Material examined.

1 ♂ (5.1 mm); Caribbean Sea; 15 Mar. 1968; N.A. Powell; CMNC 1992-0513 . 2 ♂♂ (5 mm, 5.2 mm), 8 ♀♀ (up to 4.9 mm); Hawaiian Islands, Coconut Island; 1 Mar. 1962; D.C. Matthews leg.; CMNC 2023-0248 . 3 ♀♀ (up to 4.5); Radio Island, North Carolina, 31 Mar. 1975; M.C. Govern leg.; CMNC 2023-0249 .

Distribution.

This species is widely distributed along the North American Pacific coast from southern California in San Diego to Mexico (Menzies 1962b); Pakistan, in the Indian Ocean (Yasmeen and Javed 2001); Hawaii, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and the Azores (mid -Atlantic Ocean); in the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia, Italy, Greece, France, Malta, Cyprus and Turkey. The wide distribution is most likely correct and results from ship-borne translocations. (Ulman et al. 2017; Martínez-Laiz et al. 2018; Rumbold et al. 2018).

Genus Paradella Harrison & Holdich, 1982