AJVIPITHOIDAE FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — BARNARD 



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Relationship: This species resembles A. simulans in its juvenile 

 form but differs by the distally produced article 5 of gnathopod 1. 



Distribution: Cii'cum tropical. Most northerly mainland shelf 

 record in California is at San Mateo Point, north of Oceanside. 



Figure 16. — Ampithoe ramondi Audouin, female, 11.0 mm., sta. 6206: a, b, gnathopod 1; 

 c, d, gnathopod 2; male, 11.5 mm.: e-h, uropods 1, 2, 3, 3; z, ;, inner and outer rami of 

 uropod 3; k, telson. 



Ampithoe simulans Alderman 



Figures 17, 18 



Ampithoe simulans Alderman, 1936, pp. 68-70, figs. 44-47. — J. L. Barnard, 1954, 



pp. 33-34, 1 fig. 

 fAmphithoe corallina Stout, 1912, pp. 134-136, figs. 76-77. 



Diagnosis: Second and third pleonal epimera with a faint suggestion 

 of a point at the lower posterior corners; article 5 of male gnathopod 



