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the maxillipeds, structure of pereopods I and II, stronger pereopods VII, 

 weak ornamentation of the uropods, shape of the urosoma and telson) it 

 is clearly closer to the species of the latifrons group. 



Distribution: The one specimen was caught in the Kuril-Kamchatka 

 region of the Pacific Ocean (45°23' N, 153°04' E) in the through catch 

 from a depth of 7,750 m to the surface. 



30. Scina lepisma (Chun, 1889) (Fig. 91) 



Chun, 1889a: 533 (Fortunata); Stebbing, 1903: 27; Stephensen, 

 1918: 30; Chevreux, 1919: 17; Wagler, 1926: 410, 1927: 107 .—bovallii 

 Chun, 1889b: 308. 



Length of sexually mature specimens 7-10 mm. 



The body is smooth and without keels. In females the pereon is 

 broad and rounded and the pleon is narrow; in males the differences 

 between the pereon and the pleon are not so great. The eyes are very 

 small. 



Antennae I are slightly longer than the pereon. The protopodite of 

 the maxillipeds is trapezoid; the outer lobes are short, oval, and with an 



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Fig. 91. Scina lepisma (Chun) (after Wagler, 1926). 



