Petrolisthes galathinus (Bose, 1802)

Global distribution. Western Atlantic: Cape Hatteras (USA), Greater Antilles ; Virgin Islands and Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, to Santa Catarina (Brazil) . Eastern Pacific: Costa Rica , Nicaragua, Panama and Ecuador.

Records in Cuba. Gulf of Batabanó (Juan García, Cantiles and Diego Pérez Cays) (Martínez-Iglesias & Alcolado 1990), Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago (Martínez-Iglesias 2007), Pinar del Río (María La Gorda).