Haliophasma curri 41 



flagellum of six articles. Pereopod 1 propodai palm with 19 or 20 fringed 

 spines. Uropodal exopod lacking dorsal teeth. Telson lacking middorsal 

 teeth; posterior margin incised into 12 acute or narrowly rounded teeth. 



RECORDS Barbados, in Madracis mirabilis coral, 9-15 m. 



Haliophasma Haswell, 1881 



DIAGNOSIS Eyes present. Integument often indurate, with scattered pitting. 

 Antennular flagellum usually of two articles. Antennal flagellum of 4-7 arti- 

 cles. Mandibular palp of three articles. Maxillipedal palp of two articles, 

 article 2 smaller than article 1. Pereopod 1, propodus expanded. Pereopods 

 4-7, carpi roughly rectangular. Pleopod 1 exopod operculiform. Pleonites 1- 

 5 short, fused; pleonite 6 usually demarked from telson. Latter with two 

 basal statocysts. 6 often with more elongate form than 9. Antennular 

 flagellum multiarticulate. Eyes larger. 



Key to species of Haliophasma 



1 . Telson posteriorly narrowly rounded; dactylus of pereopod 1 dentate 



valeriae 



Telson posteriorly broadly rounded; dactylus of pereopod 1 entire 



curri 



Haliophasma curri Paul and Menzies, 1971 

 Figure 15A-C 



DIAGNOSIS 9 7.0 mm. Antennular flagellum of three articles. Antennal 

 flagellum of five articles. Mandibular palp article 3 with five spines. Max- 

 illipedal palp, terminal article small, set obliquely at distolateral angle of 

 article 1. Pereopod 1, carpus triangular, posterodistal margin crenulate, dis- 

 tally rounded; propodai palm crenulate, with low rounded proximal lobe. 

 Pleonite 6 dorsally demarked, narrow, with middorsal point in posterior 

 margin. Uropodal exopod elongate, outer margin sinuate, dentate; endopod 

 ovate, distally narrowed, length twice greatest width, outer margin dentate. 

 Telson parallel sided, posterior margin broadly rounded. 



RECORDS Off' Venezuela, 95 m; Culebra Island, Bay of Panama, intertidal. 



