94 ASELLOTA • MUNNIDAE 



Munna petronastes Kensley, 1984 

 Figure 42A-D 



DIAGNOSIS 6 1.1 mm, 9 1.0 mm. Pereopod 1 in 6 enormously enlarged, 

 carpochelate. Pleopod 1 in S with distolateral angles projecting, acute. Body 

 with anterodorsal U-shaped pigment band, and two converging bands on 

 posterior pereon. 



RECORDS Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, intertidal to 2 m, usually on corals. 



Uromunna Menzies, 1962c 



DIAGNOSIS Body with few if any dorsal setae, without articulating spines. 

 Terminal antennular flagellar article not minute, bearing single aesthetasc. 

 Mandibular molar strong, cylindrical, distally truncate, lacking accessory 

 setae; palp present or absent. Pereopod 1 not sexually dimorphic, small. Per- 

 eopod 2 (rarely 2-7) sexually dimorphic, carpi and propodi broader in 6 

 than in 9 . Pleopod 3, article 2 of exopod not reaching beyond endopod. 



Key to species of Uromunna 



Larger uropodal ramus parallel sided, about 3.5 times longer than 

 basal width; inner uropodal ramus tiny, obscured by pleotelsonic 

 margin reynoldsi 



Larger uropodal ramus tapering, about 1.5-2.0 times longer than basal 

 width; inner uropodal ramus smaller than outer, but visible beyond 

 pleotelsonic margin caribea 



Uromunna caribea (Carvacho, 1977) 

 Figure 42E,F 



DIAGNOSIS 6 1.5 mm, 9 1.5 mm. Propodus of pereopod 1 1.5-2 times 

 longer than wide. Operculum of 9 distally truncate. Shorter uropodal ramus 

 visible beyond pleotelsonic margin, with single seta. Pigmentation in re- 

 ticulation on ccphalon and pereon; with six marginal patches on pleon. 



RECORDS Turks and Caicos Islands, 1 m; Canal de la Belle Plaine, 

 Guadeloupe, in water of 25%o. 



