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smooth; the anterior margin of the endopodite is denticulate. The telson 

 is oblong-triangular with an acute tip. 

 145 Distribution: This species is known from the equatorial regions of 



the eastern Atlantic; tropical, central and eastern Pacific, and equatorial 

 regions of the western part of the Indian Ocean. It has been found only 

 in total catches from depths of over 500-1 ,000 m to the surface. 



6. Scina vosseleri Tattersall, 1906 (Fig. 64) 



Tattersall, 1906: 7; stephensen, 1918: 27; Chevreux, 1919: 11; 

 Wagler, 1926: 416. 



Length of sexually mature specimens ranges from 9 to 15 nwn. 



The body is smooth; the head has a weakly developed keel. Anten- 

 nae I are rather thin and equal in length to the entire body. 



The mouth cone is large. Maxillae I have a very short palp that does 

 not reach the distal end of the outer lobe. The maxillipeds have short, 

 oval outer lobes, with a straightly truncated apex; the inner lobes are 1/3 

 the length of the outer. 



In pereopods I and II, unlike in most Scina species, the 5th and 6th 

 segments together are longer than the 2nd segment. In pereopods I the 



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Fig. 64. Scina vosseleri Tattersall, female (after Wagler, 1926). 



