“…For the Atlantic region, reports can be found for Florida (Robins, 1957 Kaufman, 1983 ; illiams, 1984 ), Puerto Rico (Glynn et al, 1964) and Texas (Hubbs, 1962. For the hdoPacific region, observations have been reported for Hawaii (Walsh,l983), the Great Bamrier Reef of Australia (Lassig, 1983), the Fiji Islands (Cooper, 1966), Japan (Araga and Tanase, 1966 ;Tribble eb al., 1982 ) and Reunion Island (Letourneur, 1991).…”