Proceedings of 
the United States 
National Museum 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION + WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Volume 120 1967 Number 3566 
SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTION 
OF THE MYODOCOPID OSTRACOD 
EUPHILOMEDES MULTICHELATA 
FROM THE GREAT BAHAMA BANK 
By Louis S. KorNIcKER 
Associate Curator, Division af Crustacea 
The original description of Philomedes multichelata Kornicker, 1959, 
was based solely on males collected in the vicinity of the Bimini 
Islands, Great Bahama Bank. Some details of the carapace and 
appendages, of value in taxonomic classification, were not included 
in the original description. 'To remedy these omissions, the holotype 
and paratypes have been restudied and described more completely in 
this paper. In addition, a female of the species, obtained from sedi- 
ment in the Bimini area, is described and illustrated. 
E. M. Poulsen (1962, p. 343) proposed the genus Huphilomedes for 
species of the subfamily Philomedinae having the following diagnostic 
characters: Maxilla with three endites; some of the secondary claws 
of the furca alternating with main claws; frontal organ not ringed, 
and shell without small horns at dorsal margin. Philomedes multi- 
chelata Kornicker, 1959, which agrees with the above diagnosis, is 
herein referred to Huphilomedes. 
I wish to thank Doctors Raymond B. Manning, Marian H. Petti- 
bone, Meredith L. Jones, Roger F. Cressey, and Mr. I. Gregory Sohn 
for reviewing the manuscript and Miss Caroline Bartlett for final 
preparation of the illustrations. 
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