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Pereopod 1, propodus with mesial surface bearing proximal row of six spines. 

 Pleonites 1-5 short, fused, boundaries marked dorsally by folds. Telson pos- 

 teriorly broadly rounded. 6: 3.5 mm. Antennular flagellum of five articles. 



RECORDS Bermuda, intertidal to 0.5 m. 



Curassanthura Kensley, 1981 



DIAGNOSIS Eyes lacking. Mandibular palp of three articles. Maxillipedal 

 palp of five articles; short endite present. Pereopod 1 subchelate. Pereopods 

 2-6 similar, carpi rectangular. Pereopod 7 lacking. Pleonites 1-5 free; 

 pleonite 6 dorsally demarked. Pleopod 1, exopod operculiform. Pleotelson 

 with single statocyst. Interstitial littoral forms. 



REMARKS Three species of this interstitial genus are known, two from the 

 Caribbean, and one from the upper sublittoral gravels of a lava tunnel on 

 Lanzarote, Canary Islands. 



Key to species of Curassanthura 



1. Telson with posterior fourth abruptly narrowed; uropodal exopod 



length 4.5 times greatest width bermudensis 



Telson tapering, but posterior fourth not abruptly narrowed; uropodal 

 exopod length 2.5 times greatest width halma 



Curassanthura bermudensis Wagele, 1985 

 Figure 30G,H 



DIAGNOSIS 9 3.0 mm. Pereopod 1 propodal length 2.5 times proximal 

 width, palm with proximal strongly recurved hooklike tooth. Uropodal ex- 

 opod slender, parallel sided, 4.5 times longer than greatest width. Telson 

 constricted in posterior fourth. 



RECORDS Church Cave, Bermuda, in shore sediments. 



