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widest at groove separating fourth, fifth segments. Sixth 

 segment, telson together forming near semicircle. 



Growth (Fig. 3 a,b, Table 1). Measurements and propor- 

 tions given in Table 1, Fig. 3 a,b. Sexual maturity judged by 

 development of female abdomen: abdomen of mature 

 females overlapping bases of coxae of walking legs, pleopods 

 broad, hair-fringed. Pubertal moult, from pubertal stage to 

 sexual maturity, occurring between CW 33—42 mm. Largest 

 known specimen, (male from Cameroon) CW 60.4, CL 39.9. 

 In Zaire, eggs produced in December; in Sudan, hatchlings 

 present in April. Dimensions of carapace varying with age 

 (Fig. 3 a). Relative proportions of carapace width (CW/CL) 

 and height (CH/CL) of juvenile and pubescent 5. flowed not 

 significantly different (P >0.05) from adults (Fig. 3 b). Front 

 width becoming smaller with age: FW/CL of adult S. floweri 

 significantly more narrow (P <0.001) than that of juvenile 

 and pubescent animals (Fig. 3 b). 



Colour. (Living adults from Ogoja, Nigeria). Dorsal cara- 

 pace dark purplish brown, with a contrasting yellow-orange 

 postfrontal crest and yellow orbital border. Flanks light 

 brown, third maxillipeds pale brown with purple tinge, eye- 

 stalks white cream, cornea black, sternum and abdomen light 

 brown with purple tinge. Arthrodial membranes between 

 joints of chelipeds and pereiopods dark brown; dorsal surface 



Table 1 Means (± SE) of ratio of carapace width (CW), carapace 

 height (CH), and front width (FW), to body size (CL) of adult 

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 species of Sudanonautes from Nigeria and Central Africa. 



CW/CL 

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Sudanonautes floweri 

 Sudanonautes aubryi 



1.52 ± 0.01 0.61 ± 0.0 10.38 ± 



0.003 

 (n = 65) 

 1.37 a ± 0.01 0.52 a ± 0.01 0.38 ± 0.002 

 (n = 63) 

 Sudanonautes africanus 1.38 a ± 0.01 0.43" ± 0.003 0.36 c ± 0.004 



(n = 26) (n = 14) {n = 15) 



Sudanonautes granulatus 1.42 a ± 0.01 0.51 a ± 0.01 0.41 a ± 0.01 



(n = 33) 

 Sudanonautes monodi 1.49 a ± 0.01 0.58 b ± 0.004 0.39 ± 0.004 



(n = 23) 

 Sudanonautes kagoroensis 1.52 ± 0.02 0.50 a ± 0.01 0.39 ± 0.004 



(n = 9) 



Sudanonautes orthostylis 1.45 a ± 0.02 0.51 a ± 0.01 0.46 a ± 0.01 



(n = 10) 



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