Global Range: (>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)) Widepsread distribution in the tropical western Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico, southern Florida, Bahamas, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, Lesser Antilles, Panama, Belize and Nicaragua. Smith (1971): Florida Keys, Bahamas. Colin (1978): Caribbean. Cairns (1982): Belize. Nelson (1988), Farrell et al. (1983), Tunnell (1988), Jordan (1992): Mexican Gulf. Jaap (1984), Jaap et al. (1988, 1989), Burns (1985), White and Porter (1985): Florida Keys. Lang et al. (1988): Bahamas. Goreau (1959), Goreau and Wells (1967): Jamaica. Roberts (1971): Cayman Islands. Kuhlmann (1974), Zlatarski and Estalella (1982): Cuba. A63ALM01FCUS, A70PRE01FCUS, A89GOE01FCUS: Puerto Rico. A82BRA01FCUS: Haiti. A74LEW01FCUS, A87TOM01FCUS: Barbados. A82ROG01FCUS, A83ROG01FCUS, A82GLA01FCUS, A90EDM00FCUS: Virgin Islands. A79DUN01FCUS, A76GOO01FCUS, A72ROB01FCUS, A68ADA01FCUS: lesser Antilles. A74SCA01FCUS, A78FOC01FCUS, A79BAK02FCUS: Curacao and Bonaire. A82GLA01FCUS: Nicaragua. A84LAS02FCUS, A82HIG01FCUS: Panama.