NO. 4 



schmitt: stomatopods 



213 



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Fig. 28. Gonodactylus oerstedii, female, with a Pacific type tel- 

 son that tends toward being intermediate between the Pacific and 

 Atlantic type telsons, from San Gabriel Bay, Espiritu Santo 

 Island, Gulf of California (Hancock Exped, Sta. 638-37, March 

 7, 1937). a. telson; b. rostral plate and ocular scales. 

 It is to be noted that in this specimen the lobules between the sub- 

 median and intermediate teeth of the telson are still, in part at 

 least, posterior to the extremities of the intermediate teeth and 

 that the axes, extended, of the submedian and intermediate teeth 

 lie closer together than in the true Atlantic type telson. The ma- 

 jority of the Lower California specimens are of the true Pacific 

 type (Fig. 27a) rather than of this uncommon intermediate form. 



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Fig. 29. Gonodactylus oerstedii, male, with Atlantic type telson 

 from Academy Bay, Indefatigable Island, Galapagos (Hancock 

 Exped. Sta. 168-34, January 20, 1934). a, telson; b. rostral plate 

 and ocular scales. 



The median carina of this specimen is more swollen than in the 

 Tortugas specimen (Fig. 26a) with which it may be compared, 

 but swelling or inflation of the carinae is of very common occur- 

 rence in all species of Gonodactylus (of. Kemp, Mem. Indian 

 Mus., Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 150, 1913). 



