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II-V. The head has a projecting, visorshaped, bulging frons, and in some 

 species a massive and broad vesicular rostrum that covers the antennae 

 from above. The eyes are small, oval, poorly developed, even sometimes 

 absent. 



In antennae I the proximal segment of the flagellum is broadly con- 

 ical or elongated-oval, straight or slightly curved. Antennae 11 are rudi- 

 mentary with a highly developed antennal gland. 



92 The pereopods have a broad 2nd segment. Pereopods I and II have 

 a distally broadened 5th segment and a distally slighdy narrowing 6th 

 segment; the 6th segment of pereopods III-VII is almost cylindrical with 

 a broad distal margin and a depression into which the strong curved claw 

 completely retracts. The claws of pereopods I and II may partly retract 

 into the body of the 6th segment. 



Type species: Chuneola paradoxa Woltereck, 1909. 

 The genus Chuneola comprises three species. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF GENUS CHUNEOLA 



1. Pereopods III-VII with 6th segment shorter than or equal to the 5th 

 segment. Lateral surface of 6th segment of pereopods II-IV smooth. 

 Eyes distinct 2. 



— Pereopods III-VII with 6th segment slightly longer than 5th segment. 

 Eyes almost indistinct 2. C. major Vinogr. 



2. Body smooth, without keels and spines. Telson shorter than 

 basipodite of uropods III 1 . C. paradoxa Wolt. 



— Somites II-IV of pereon with lateral spines. Head extended into a tri- 

 angular vesicular rostrum. Telson almost equal in length to basipodite 

 of uropods III 3. C. spinifera Vinogr. 



1. Chuneola paradoxa Woltereck, 1909 (Figs. 31, 32) 



Woltereck, 1909: 152;Pirlot, 1930: 3.— parasitica Vinogradov, 

 1956: 196, 1962: 11. 



Length of almost sexually mature female 28 mm. All the remaining 

 known specimens of this species are immature and range in length from 

 6 to 1 1 mm. 



The color of unfixed specimens is cherry-red. The body is spindle- 

 shaped, in young specimens flattened dorsoventrally and without keels 

 and spines. The head in the sexually mature specimen has a broad visor- 



93 shaped rostrum; in young specimens the rostrum is not developed but 

 the roundish frontal part of the head extends forward. The eyes are small 

 and distinct. 



Antennae I are short, inserted in sockets along the sides of the head, 

 and only slightly project beyond the vertical frons; their vesicular broad 



