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6. Hyperia leptura Bowman, 1973 (Fig. 135) 



Bowman, 1973: 23. 



The head is longer than somites I and II of the pereon together. 

 The outer lobes of the maxillipes have many long submarginal setae; 

 the inner lobes are half the length of the outer; their anterior surface is 

 densely covered with setae, with one strong spine at the apex. 



The 2nd segment of pereopods I and 11 is comparatively narrow, 

 2.5 times longer than wide, and in the proximal part of the. anterior 

 margin armed with short setae; the 5th and 6th segments are long and 

 narrow and armed with numerous setae. Pereopods III and IV are long; 



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Fig. 135. Hyperia leptura Bowman, female (after Bowman, 1973). 



