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It inhabits meso- and bathypelagic depths and is found in catches from 

 depths of 0-750 and 550-1,100 m as well as in total catches from depths 

 of more than 1 ,000 m to the surface. 



2. Chuneola major Vinogradov, 1957 (Figs. 33, 34) 



Vinogradov, 1957: 201, 1964: 118. 



Length of caught specimens 16 to 25 mm. Sexually mature speci- 

 mens not known. 



The color of unfixed specimens is reddish-pink. 



The body is spindle-shaped, slightly flattened dorsoventrally, and 

 smooth; a barely perceptible furrow runs along the middorsal line from 

 the anterior margin of the head to the base of the telson. The head has a 

 blunt frons that projects strongly in the form of a visor, almost entirely 

 covering antennae I from above. The eyes are indistinct. 



The length of antennae I is equal to that of the first two somites of the 

 pereon; the peduncle is broad and short; the three-segmented flagellum 

 is 2.5-3.0 times longer than the peduncle; its proximal segment is broad, 

 almost cylindrical, the two distal segments are very small and apically 

 bear two short setae. Antennae II are two-segmented, the basal segment 

 broad, vesicular and the distal one small and oval; in a 21 -mm long 



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Fig. 33. Chuneola major Vinogradov (after Vinogradov, 1957). 

 a — lateral view; b — dorsal view 



