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ALLAN HANCOCK ATLANTIC EXPEDITION 



REPORT 



gust 26, 1958;34/35fms;45 5, 1? (USNM). 

 OREGON Sta. 2209; 09°45'N, 60°47'W; southeast of Trinidad; Au- 

 gust 26, 1958 ; 20/22 fms; 1? (UMML). 

 OREGON Sta. 2279; 06°20'N, 55°34'W; north of Suriname; Septem- 

 ber 3, 1958; 14/7 ims;3$$, 1? (USNM). 

 OREGON Sta. 2327 ; 06°26'N, 54°20'W; north of Suriname; Septem- 

 ber 15, 1958; 17 fms; 1 S, 2$ 9 (UMML). 

 Measurements: Males, 75.4 to 130.2 mm, total length; females, 80.0 

 to 143.0 mm, total length. 



Description: Eyes large, bilobed ; rostral plate subquadrate, with 

 short median carina on anterior half ; bifurcation of median carina of 

 carapace open for at least 4/5 the distance from the dorsal pit to the 

 anterior margin; anterolateral spines of carapace occasionally extend- 

 ing to rostral base ; outer margin of raptorial dactylus sinuate, inner 

 margin armed with six teeth ; mandibular palp present ; five epipods , 

 present ; lateral process of fifth thoracic somite sharp, acute, curved for-j 

 ward ; lateral processes of sixth and seventh thoracic somites acute, di- 

 rected posteriorly, each with a small anterior tubercle; submedian cari- 

 nae present on last three thoracic and all abdominal somites; abdomi-| 

 nal carinae spined as follows: submedian, (4) 5-6; intermediate, (2-3) i 

 4-6; lateral, 1-6; marginal, 1-5; telson with six strong marginal spinesj 

 prelateral lobe present ; denticles 3-4, 6-9, 1. 



Remarks: The color is as follows: last three thoracic and first iivel 

 abdominal somites with a dark line along posterior margin; second ab- 

 dominal somite with a median rectangular dark patch; bases of sub- 

 median teeth of telson dark; distal half of penultimate segment and! 

 proximal half of ultimate segment of uropodal exopod dark; distal] 

 half of inner branch of uropod also dark. 



Squilla edentata (Lunz, 1937) 

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Squilla intermedia Bigelow, 1893, p. 102 (part; Gulf of Mexico spe- 

 cimen only) ; Bigelow, 1894, p. 530, fig. 19 (part; Gulf of Mexico! 

 specimen only) ; Chace, 1954, p. 449 (part; Gulf of Mexico spe-j 

 cimen only) ; Manning, 1959, p. 19 (part). 



Chloridella edentata Lunz, 1937, p. 14, figs. 7-10. 



Squilla edentata, Chace, 1954, p. 449; Manning, 1959, p. 19. 



