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153 Fig. 70. Scina stebbingi Chevreux, sexually immature specimen (after Wagler, 1926). 



segment of pereopods V has smooth anterior and posterior margins, its 

 distal process is only slightly longer than the 3rd segment and is also 

 smooth; the 4th segment is slightly shorter than the 5th; the weak 6th 

 segment is less than half the length of the 5th; the claw is short and 

 strongly curved. Pereopods VI are somewhat shorter than pereopods V; 

 the 5th segment is slightly shorter than the 4th and 2/3 the length of 

 the 6th segment; the claw is small. Pereopods VII are somewhat shorter 

 than pereopods VI, the length ratios of the distal segments the same as 

 in pereopods VI; the claw is small and falcate. 



The uropods are smooth or very weakly armed. Uropods I are very 

 finely denticulate in the distal half of the anterior margin and bear small 

 sparse denticles on the posterior margin. In uropods II only the proximal 

 part of the posterior margin of the endopodite is finely denticulate while 

 in uropods III the middle part of the anterior margin of the endopodite. 

 The triangular telson has a blunt apex. 



Distribution: Tropical Atlantic (from 28°29' S, 6°14'E to 38°20' N, 

 9°20'W), Mediterranean Sea, northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean 

 (Kuril-Kamchatka region), and southern part of the Bering Sea. It is 

 found in catches from depths of 100-500 (Bering Sea) and 1,000-1,500 m 



