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Material: Reish stations E-40 (7), E-41 (1), E-42 (5), E-43 (3), 

 E-137 (1), E-163 (2). 



Distribution: Australia, South Africa, Red Sea, in shallow waters 

 to depths as great as 85 fathoms; Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. 



Maera inaequipes (Costa) 



Maera inaequipes (Costa). — J. L. Barnard, 1959, pp. 25-26, pi. 5 (with references) . 



Material: Abbott stations 72-G-3 (3), 160-165-J-5 (1); Reish 

 station E-44 (7). 



Remarks: These immature specimens have the typically notched 

 telsonic apices and fit the figures of Chevreux and Fage (1925) 

 relatively well. J. L. Barnard (1959) has written extensive comments 

 on this species and its polymorphy; it is still questionable whether 

 his Californian representatives of this species are truly M. inaequipes 

 since the telson in that material has blunt apices ; if such polymorphy 

 is realistic, it then complicates the identification of the atoll material 

 because the young M. pacifica segTegated herein would be assigned to 

 M. inaequipes. The life histories of these species need study by 

 resident zoologists in the tropics. 



Distribution: Cosmopolitan in tropical and warm-temperate. 



Maera inaequipes serrata Schellenberg 



Maera inaequipes serrata Schellenberg, 1938a, pp. 41-42, fig. 18. 



Material: Abbott stations 40-E-3 (1), 42-F-2 (2), 76-H-3 (1), 

 81-B-4d (2), 113-H-2 (27), 116-F-3 (2), 125-D-3 (2), 126-C-4 (1), 

 141-D-3 (1), 142-E-4 (1), 144-F-2 (1), 179-184-M-l (3); Reish 

 stations E-28 (1), E-40 (6), E-42 (1), E-85 (1), E-137 (1), E-166 



(1). 



Distribution: Gilbert Islands; Ifaluk Atoll, Caroline Islands; 

 Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. 



Maera insignis (Chevreux) 



Maera insignis (Chevreux). — Schellenberg 1938a, pp. 50-52, fig. 24. — J. L. 

 Barnard. 1955, pp. 12-13. 



Material: Abbott stations 22-D-5 (6), 23-E-2 (1), 24-C-l (4), 

 26-F-2 (6), 27-F-l (4), 28-D-3 (2), 29-C-l (3), 30-C-4 (5), 31-D-2 

 (10), 32-G-3 (7), 39-E-5 (2), 40-E-3 (16), 41-D-3 (21), 42-F-2 

 (15), 44-D-3 (3), 46-E-2 (7), 48-E-l (13), 49-E-2 (10), 50-E-l (17), 

 66-E-lO (3), 69-E-7 (1), 83-E-l (3), 91-E-2 (1), 128-C-5 (1); 

 Bayer stations 431 (9), 589 (1); Reish stations E-75 (1), E-83 (1), 

 E-137 (4), E-138 (1). 



Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Seychelles, Chagos, Flores, Philippines, 

 Micronesia, Fiji, Ellice, Hawaii. 



