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equal to antennae I in length; the 3rd segment is the largest. Antennae II 

 in the male are eight-segmented, longer th?n antennae I, at least in the 

 length of the two distal segments. The maxillipeds have an almost round 

 medial lobe that extends to the middle of the outer lobes; each outer 

 lobe has a row of six-eight spinules on the surface and four-five minute 

 spinules along the outer margin. 



The pereon is much longer than the pleon and urosoma together; 

 somites III-VII are approximately equal in size, somites I-II shorter than 

 they. The pereopods are strong. The 2nd segment of pereopods I is 

 shorter than the remaining segments together; the 2nd-5th segments bear 

 one-four setae in the posterior distal angle; the 6th segment is longer 

 than the 5th and has a denticulate posterior margin; its anterior margin 

 bears two short setae distally; the claw is half the length of the 6th 

 segment and denticulate posteriorly. The 2nd segment of pereopods II is 

 shorter than the rest of the leg, with a barely convex posterior margin; 

 the process of the 5th segment extends to the base of the claw; the 

 anterior distal angle of this segment is armed with a strong seta; the 

 posterior margin of the 6th segment and the margin of the process facing 

 it are denticulate. The 2nd segment of pereopods III-IV has a straight 

 anterior and a convex posterior margin; the posterior distal angle of the 

 5th segment of pereopods FV and the posterior margin of the 6th segment 

 of both III and IV are finely denticulate; the claw is 1/3 the length of the 

 6th segment. Pereopods V-VI are almost equal in length; the 2nd segment 

 is equal in length to the 3rd and 4th segments together, in pereopods V, 

 1.5 times, in pereopods VI, 2 times longer than wide, and anteriorly 

 bears several spinules distally; the anterior and distal margins of the 5th 

 and anterior margin of the 6th segment are finely denticulate and the 5th 

 additionally bears several equidistant thin spines on the anterior side; the 

 claw is 2/7 the length of the 6th segment. The 2nd segment in pereopods 

 VII is highly broadened, its width almost equal to its length, and the 

 rounded lobe of the posterior margin reaches 1/3 the 4th segment; the 

 anterior side of the 2nd-3rd segments is distally ornamented with minute 

 denticles; the 4th segment is almost square, finely denticulate distally and 

 bears one seta in the anterior and posterior distal angles; the 5th segment 

 232 is 1.5 times longer than the 4th, anteriorly and distally bears very small 

 spinules, and slightly projects above the base of the 6th segment; the 

 6th segment is three times longer than wide and its anterior side covered 

 with minute spinules; the anterior distal angle of the 6th segment also 

 projects; the 7th segment is finger-shaped, shorter and slightly narrower 

 than the 6th segment, and its surface anteriorly and distally covered with 

 a squamose pattern that proximally modifies into very minute spinules. 

 The posterior lateral angles of the urosome project backward. The 

 basipodite of uropods I is denticulate in the distal part of the outer margin 



