J. BERGE, W. VADER AND A. GALAN 

Fig.9 Andaniexis pelagica sp.novy., from: Barnard 1962:38, fig. 25 “Andaniexis australis’ . 

Andaniexis pelagica sp.nov., holotype. 
Pereopod 7 basis anterior margin straight, distally rounded, no 
medial row of setae. 
Oostegites unknown. 
Pleonites 1-3 dorsally smooth. 
Urosome: articulation between urosome segments 2 and 3 present. 
Uropod | peduncle longer than rami, outer ramus as long as inner. 
Uropod 2 peduncle longer than rami, outer ramus as long as inner. 
Uropod 3 peduncle at least as long as rami, outer ramus 2-articulate, 
outer ramus equal to inner. 
Telson as long as broad, shorter than peduncle uropod 3, entire, 
apically pointed, no submarginal setae apically. 
MALE. Unknown. 
REMARKS. Barnard (1962) identified five specimens (‘9.0, 5.5, 
4.0, 2.0, and 1.5 mm., sexes unknown’ (Barnard 1962: 40) from the 
same Vema station as ‘Andaniexis australis (?)’, due to the inad- 
equate original description of the latter species (K.H.Barnard 1932). 
However, examination and description of the type material of A. 
australis (see above), together with a closer examination of the 
present material, revealed that it should actually be separated into 
two new species: Andaniexis pelagica (immatures 9.0 and 5.5 mm) 
and Andaniopsis africana sp.nov. (see below). [In fact, Barnard 
himself must have reached the same conclusion after he had pub- 
lished his results, as there was a small note in one of the vials 
containing A. pelagica with a note stating ‘holotype’.] 
The present species is not a ‘typical’ member of Andaniexis, i.e. 
it does not belong to the abyssi-group (Berge & Vader 1997a), but is 
more closely related to the ‘tridentata-group’ (A. tridentata Ledoyer, 
1986 and A. spinescens Alcock, 1894, see Berge & Vader 1997a), 
