108 



93 



Fig. 32. Chuneola paradoxa Wotereck, female (after Vinogradov, 1956). 



Pereopods III and IV are identical in structure, longer than the preced- 

 ing pair of pereopods; the 2nd segment in young specimens has parallel 

 margins, in the adult is broadly oval but always shorter than the 4th 

 and 5th segments together; the 4th segment is shorter than the 5th and 

 slightly (in Woltereck's illustration — very strongly) broadened distally; 

 the 5th segment is slightly longer than or equal to the 6th; there is a 

 94 small hollow in the distal part into which the 6th segment may retract; 

 the claw is falcate, strong, and retractile. Pereopods V-VII are identical 

 in length and in ratios of segments; their 4th segment is shorter than the 

 6th, which in turn is much shorter than the corresponding 5th segment; 

 the 6th segment is appreciably broadened distally; the claws are strong, 

 curved, and retractile. 



The basipodite of uropods I is slightly longer than the endopodite. 

 The basipodite of uropods II is equal to the endopodite and slightly 

 longer than the exopodite. Uropods II are short and broad, the basipodite 

 slightly longer than broad. The telson is roundish-triangular with a blunt 

 tip, more than half the length of the basipodite of uropods III and some- 

 times only barely not reaching its distal margin. 



Distribution: Northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean, central part of 

 the Indian Ocean, Arafura Sea, Tasman Sea, and the Indian Ocean sector 

 of Antarctica (59°29' S, 97°08' E). Not found in the Atlantic Ocean. 



