“…The highest number of species (six) has been recorded for the relatively restricted areas of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, and Southeast Mexico (Richardson, 1902;Gardiner, 1973;Guţu, 1984Guţu, , 2002Guţu, , 2006bGuţu, , 2009. Furthermore, five Chondropodinae are known from East African coasts (Barnard, 1914(Barnard, , 1920Guţu, 1989bGuţu, , 2014, and four species were found in West Africa (Guţu, 2006a;Menioui, 2013). The genera of Chondropodinae are widely distributed and usually present in more than one marine basin.…”