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CARL BOVALLIUS, AMPHIPODA HYPERIIDEA. I. 2. 



PHRONIMIDiE. 



Genus 2. PHRONIMELLA, C. CLAUS, 1872. 



Diagn. Capiä altum, oonicum. Perceon compressum, post angiiste elongatum. Pedes jiercei primi et 

 secundi pariuni fere simplices, sequentibus dissimiles et niiilto breviores. Metacarpus pedum 

 tertii ac quarti pnriiim valde elongatus. Pedes quinti paris nianu replicata instruoti. Pedes 

 uri secundi paris in mare reducti, in femiiia nulli; pedunculus pedum ultimi paris angustus. 

 Telson subterminale. 



The Äea<7 is deep and conical. The perteon is compressed, with the hind part narrowly 

 elongated. The first two pairs of perceojyoda are almost simple, dissimilar to the following, 

 and mnch shorter. The metacarpus of the third and fourth pairs is much elongated. Tlie 

 fifth pair are provided with a folding hand. The second pair of u7'02}oda. are more or less 

 reduced in the male, and entirely wanting in the female; the peduncle of the last pair is 

 narrow. The telson is fixed subterminally. 



Tii. Streets. 



C. Claus. 



J. V. Cauus. 



Syn. 1872.') Phronrmella, C. CJjAUS. — Grundziige der Zoologie. 2^" Aufl.; p. 



467. 

 « » — 1S75. .. 3"'= Aufl., p. 518. 



)> » — 1878. »Ueber Herz und Gefäss-system der Hy- 



periden». Zoologischer Anzeiger. I''*" 

 Jahrg., p. 269. 

 1) » — 1879. »Der Organismus der Phronimiden». Arb. 



Zool. Inst. der Universität Wien. 

 Tom. 2, p. 64 (2). 

 1883. »A study of the Phronimidne of the 

 North Pacific Surveying Expedition». 

 Proc. of the U. S. National Museum. 

 Vol. 5, p. 7. 

 Grundziige der Zoologie. 4*^ Aufl., 1^'" 



Bd., p. .586. 

 Prodroraus Faunre Mediterraneoe. Vol. 1, 



p. 42.3. 

 Dr H. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ord- 

 nungen des Thier-Reichs. Band. 5, 

 Abth. 2, p. 489. 

 1887. »Systeraatical list of the Araphipoda Hy- 

 periidea», Bih. t. K. Sv. Vet. Ak. 

 Handl. Bd. 11. N:o 16, p. 26. 



1887. »On six new Amphipods from the Bay 

 of Bengal». Journal of the Asiatic 

 Soc. of Bengal. Vol. 56. Part 2. 

 N:o 2, p. 214. 



1888. »Report on the Amphipoda». Voy. of 



H. M. S. Challengcr. Zoology. Vol. 

 29, p. 1361. 



') In 1871, in »Untersuchungen iiber den Bau und die Vervvandtschaft der Hyperiden», p. 149, Claus 

 used the name Phronimella elongata, hut without giving any generic diagnosis. 



1884. 

 1885 

 A. Gerstaecker. 1886. 



C. BOVALLIUS. 



G. M. GiLEs. 



Th. Stebbing. 



