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Table Description: Location
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| Species | Sp. notes | Area | Reference |
| C, carnescens | Dana | Eastern Polynesia, Marshall Islands | Alcock, 1905; Holthius, 1953 |
| C. brevimanus Dana | (= C.clypeata (Latrielle) and C. hilgendorfi (Terao) | From Zanzibar to Tahiti and the Tuamotu Islands, but not known from the East African mainland | Alcock, 1905; Holthius, 1953; Yaldwyn and Wodzicki, 1979; Lewinson, 1982 |
| C. cavipes | Stimpson | A widely distributed species from the mainland of East Africa to the East Indies and the Ryu Kyu Islands | Alcock, 1905; Barnard, 1950; Lewinsohn, 1982 |
| C. clypeatus | Herbst. This must not be confused with C. clypeata (Latrielle), which is a synonym of C. brevimanus. | From southern Florida to Venezuela, and the West Indian Islands Also Bermuda. The only species in the Western Atlantic. | Chace and Hobbs, 1969; Bright, 1966 |
| C. compressus | H. Milne edwards. | West coast of America from Mexico (Lower California) to Chile. Only species definitely known from American West Coast, and restricted to this coast. Records from the Indo-West Pacific are misidentifications | Bright, 1966; Ball, 1972; Holthius, 1954; Ball and Haig, 1974 |
| C. longitarsis | de Man. | Alcock (1905) gives the distribution as East Indes, and there seems to be no subsequent records | de Man. Alcock |
| C. rubescens | Greeff | Found in West Africa on the islands of Sao Tome and Rolas (Rathbun, 1900). Appears to be the only species recorded for West Africa; records there of C. rugosus refer to this species | Rathbun, 1900 |
| C. rugosus | H. Milne edwards. | From the mainland coast of East Africa through the Indo-Pacific to Tahiti and the Tuamoto Islands. Records from West Coast of America almost certainly C. compressus | Holthius, 1953; Alexander, 1976; Yaldwyn and Wodzicki, 1979; Lewinsohn, 1982, Rathburn, 1900 |
| C. scaevola | Forskal | The only species in the Red Sea. (Lewinsohn, 1969). Found in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somalia, Pakistan (Lewinsohn, 1982) | Lewinsohn, 1969; Lewinsohn, 1982 |
| C. spinosa (C. variabilis) | H. Milne edwards. | Various Polynesian islands and the northern coast of Australia (from the various references listed in Gordan, 1956) | Gordon, 1956 |
