MARINE GAMAMRIDEAN AMPHIPODA 



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Figure 12. — Talitroidea: a, mandible, note absence of palp; b, accessory flagellum absent; 



c,d,e, variations of uropod 3, essentially uniramous, rarely with scale-like inner ramus; 



f,g, extremes of telson. 

 Dexaminidae, Prophliantidae, and Kuriidae have coalescence of two or three urosomal 

 segments. Dogielinotidae have aspects of extreme fossorial adaptation such as spinose an- 

 tennae and pereopods, and a nasiform epistpmal projection. Eophliantidae have cylindrical 

 bodies, short coxae and degraded mandibular molars. Phliantidae have depressed, rugose 

 bodies and splayed coxae. Note the convergence of Beaudettiidae, figure 42. 



