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Distribution: Distributed in the tropics and subtropics of the Worid 

 Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea; reports are lacking from the central 

 part of the Pacific Ocean although the species is common in the Indo- 

 West Pacific region. 



6. Phronima colletti Bovallius, 1887 (Fig. 183) 



Bovallius, 1887a: 25; 1889: 378; Vosseler, 1901: 32; Chevreux and 

 Page, 1925: 396; Shih and Dunbar, 1963: 2; Shih, 1969: 21; Laval, 1970: 

 47. —diogenes Chun, 1889a: 521.— gasti Dudich, 1926: 134. 



Size of females 6.5-18 mm, of males 6.3-8.5 mm. 



The body is delicate and thin, particularly in females. The antennae 

 in males are well developed. Antennae I have a five- to six-segmented 

 flagellum; antennae II are approximately 1.5 times longer and the flag- 

 ellum 11- to 17- segmented. The head is generally bent ventrally; its 

 crown is more bulged than in other species. 



Fig. 183. Phronima colletti Bovallius 

 ($ Pv of $, Us of $, and P,-,,,— after Vosseler, 1901; rest— after Laval, 1970). 



