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ASELLOTA • JANIRIDAE 



Figure 39. Carpias minutus: A, pereopod \, 6 . Carpias punctatus: B, 6; C, pereopod 

 I, 6 . Carpias serricaudus: D, pereopod \, 6 . Carpias triton: E, F, pereopod \, S . 



Pereopod 1 6 , distal two-thirds parallel sided, with strong acute tooth defin- 

 ing palm, and second rounded tooth; propodus with three lobe-teeth on 

 flexor surface, overreaching carpus by a third of its length. Pleopod 1 (5, 

 outer distal lobe narrowly triangular, reaching well beyond inner lobe. Oper- 

 culum of 9 with distal margin shallowly concave. Uropod half length of 

 pleotelson; latter with posterior margin a broadly rounded lobe between 

 uropodal bases. 



RECORDS Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, intertidal to 15.2 m. 



