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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I28 



METOPELLOIDES TATTERSALLI Gurjanova 

 Figure 12, a-e 

 Metopelloides tattersalli Gurjanova, 1938, pp. 289, 392, fig. 16. 



Material collected. — In 341 feet, 8 miles out, October 11, 1949, 

 I specimen. 

 This species was described by Gurjanova from the Sea of Japan 



Fig. 12. — Metopelloides tattersalli Gurjanova. Male: a, gnathopod i ; b, sixth 

 and seventh joints of gnathopod i, greatly enlarged; c, gnathopod 2; d, peraeopod 

 2 ; e, peraeopod 5. 



in 1938, The present record from Alaska is the second of its 

 occurrence. 



In the present male, which is mature and measures about 6 mm., 

 the first gnathopod differs somewhat from that figured by Gurjanova 

 (1938, fig. 16-8). Her specimen, the sex of which is not known, 

 measured only 2.5 mm. and was probably immature. 



Gnathopod i, as shown here in figure 12, a, has the sixth joint 

 shorter than the fifth and widening distally. Gnathopod 2 is as 

 shown by Gurjanova. Coxal plate 4 is rather shallow and long. 

 Peraeopod 5 with second joint slightly expanded and produced below 



