COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION 



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Family EURYPHORIDAE 

 Genus GLOIOPOTES Steenstrup and Liitken, 1861 



Head fused with the first tliree tlioracic segments and covered 

 with a carapace lilre that in the Caligidae ; no luniiles ; foiirtli seg- 

 ment with a pair of dorsal plates, which overlap the genital segment 

 and the basal segments of the fourth legs ; genital segment in female 

 produced at each posterior corner into a curved process, carrying a 

 serrated styliform appendage on its outer margin, in the male with- 

 out processes, but with the styliform appendages attached directly 

 to its sides. Abdomen slender, 2-segmented; caudal rami filiform. 

 First and fourth legs uniramose, second and third biramose, rami 

 3-segmented ; terminal claws on first legs tripartite ; furca compound, 

 its branches bifid. A single species. 



GLOIOPOTES ORNATUS Wilson 



FiGTTBE 262 



Gloiopotes ornatus Wilson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 699, pi. 17, 1907. 



Occu-rrence. — Both sexes were obtained from the outside of the 

 swordfish and the spearfish at Woods Hole, July, 1924. 

 Distribution. — Not found outside the present area. 



FiGDRE 262. — Oloiopotes ornatus: a. Female, dorsal; b, female, fourth leg; 

 o, male, dorsal ; dj male, first leg ; e, male, second antenna 



Color. — Body a uniform yellowish white, the digestive tract and 

 reproductive organs deepened to a light orange ; eye a dull brick red. 



Female. — Carapace longer than wide and strongly arched, the 

 lateral margins and especially the posterior lobes with a fringe of 

 long hairs ; median lobe with a row of spines near the margin on the 

 dorsal surface; genital segment with convex lateral margins fringed 

 with a row of spines ; other spines scattered over the dorsal surface. 



