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Basal segment of uropod without well-marked lobe or projection 

 on dorsal surface inside dorsal carina; inner margin of proximal seg- 

 ment and all of distal segment of exopod with single row of plumose 

 setae on margin; proximal segment of exopod lacking fixed distal spine 

 on ventral surface; endopod slender, tapering distally, single layer of 

 marginal plumose setae present; inner spine of basal prolongation of 

 uropod much smaller than outer. 



Figure 6. — Gonodactylus choprai, new species, female holotype, TL 20.4, off Somali Repub- 

 lic: a, last abdominal somite, telson, and uropod; b, submedian teeth of telson, ventral 

 view; c, rostral plate; d, uropod, ventral view. 



Color. — In preservative, body with numerous dark chromato- 

 phores scattered over light background; pleura dark, pigment most 

 concentrated on last thoracic and last abdominal somite; posterior 

 third of carapace, sixth thoracic segment, and first, fourth, and sixth 

 abdominal somites with dark dorsal patch of chromatophores, that on 

 first abdominal somite most prominent; males with dark ventral sur- 

 face, pigmentation of body more intense than in females. 



Size.— Males, TL 11.3-16.4; females, TL 12.2-20.8. Other meas- 

 urements of female holotype, TL 20.4: carapace length 4.2; fifth 

 abdominal somite width 3.6; telson length 2.5, width 3.2. 



