B3 



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Fig. 136. Hyperia bowmani Vinogradov, female (after Vinogradov, 1976). 



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Distribution: The solitary specimen was found in the eastern equa- 

 torial part of the Pacific Ocean (0°01' N, 154°48' W) in a through catch 

 at 0-800 m. 



2. Genus Hyperiella Bovallius, 1887 



Bovallius, 1887a: 19; 1887c: 565; 1889: 241; Stebbing, 1888: 1403; 

 Bowman, 1973: 26. 



Crustaceans of medium size, length about 10 mm. 



The body, especially in females, has a broadened pereon. All the 

 somites of the pereon are free. The head is very large, spherical, its 

 height more than its length; the anterior surface is almost flat and the 

 interantennal lobe is not developed. The eyes occupy almost the entire 

 surface of the head. In sexually mature females antennae I and II have 



