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Figure 37. Podocerus wanganui J. L. Barnard, 1972 female, AM R86200,6.7 mm, Batemans Bay, New South Wales (scales represent 0.1 mm). 
Group (33°4'00"S 134°36’36"E), 7 m, 22 April 1985 (SA 83); 1 male 
specimen, dissected, 5.5 mm, 3 slides, NMY J62402, northeastern side of 
Topgallant Island, Investigator Island Group (33°4'00"S 134°36'36"E), 7 m, 
22 April 1985 (SA 83); many specimens, NMY J62403, northeastern side 
of Topgallant Island, Investigator Island Group (33°4'00"S 134°36'36"E), 
7 m, 22 April 1985(SA 83); 1 specimens, NMV J57130, northeastern side 
of Topgallant Island, Investigator Island Group (33°43"00'S 134°36"36E), 
16 m, 22 April 1985 (SA 84); 1 specimen, NMV J57050, northeast side 
of Topgallant Island, Investigator Group (33°43'00''S 134°36'36"E), 20 m, 
21 April 1985, (SA 80); 2 specimens, NMV J57054, Venus Bay, southern 
side of Germein Island (33° 13'12"S 134°40'06"E), 2 m, 23 April 1985 (SA 
88 ).—Western Australia. Many specimens, AM P.79832, 30 km south of 
Carnarvon, Vancouver Peninsula, (35°4'S 117°56'E), high intertidal, weed 
mat, 13 December 1983, coll. H. E. Stoddart (WA 117). 
Diagnosis. Body cuticle dorsally smooth. Head dorsally 
smooth; eyes not protruding from head. Gnathopod 1 
propodus subovate, with 5 robust setae near corner of palm. 
Gnathopod 2 propodus subovate, palm with one rectangular 
and one subtriangular tooth, palm defining comer with tooth 
and 2 robust setae; dactylus closing short of palm end. 
Female. Gnathopod 1 carpus rectolinear, 1.2 times as long 
as broad; propodus subtriangular to subovoid, 1.8 times as 
long as broad, palm smooth weakly convex with 4 robust 
setae near corner of palm. Gnathopod 2 merus posterior 
margin lobe broad produced, broader than long, propodus, 
palm defined by tooth with 3 robust setae. 
Description. Based on male specimen, 8.8 mm, AM P.86199. 
Body cuticle dorsally smooth. Head dorsally smooth; eyes 
not protmding from head; lateral cephalic lobe subquadrate; 
anteroventral comer subquadrate. Antenna 1 between 0.4 
times body length; peduncle article 2 longer than article 
3; primary flagellum 0.33 times peduncle length, with 6 
articles; accessory flagellum 1-articulate, twice as long as 
broad. Antenna 2 distinctly longer than antenna 1; article 4 
shorter than article 5; flagellum 0.25 t im es peduncle length, 
posterior margin with line of short robust setae, with 4 
articles. Mandible accessory setal row with 4 setae. Maxilla 
1 palp distal margin with 6 robust setae. 
Coxae 1-7 discontiguous. Gnathopod 1 coxa subequal 
to coxa 2, longer than broad, distoventral corner weakly 
produced anteriorly, corner subacute; basis 1.2 times as long 
as broad, anterodistal margin with slender and robust setae; 
carpus subtriangular, 1.1 times as long as broad; propodus 
subovate, 1.9 times as long as broad, anterior margin with 
clusters of long slender setae, palm margin smooth, with 5 
robust setae near corner of palm; dactylus posterior margin 
with 6 serrate teeth, cuticle surface with raised serrations, 
closing along palm. Gnathopod 2 basis 2.1 times as long 
as broad, anterodistal corner rounded, with dense brush of 
plumose setae; merus posterior margin with broad produced 
lobe, as long as broad, apically subacute, without short 
robust setae; propodus subovate, 2.1 times as long as broad, 
anterior margin with clusters of short robust setae, palm 
acute, straight, palm % length of propodus, with broad, well 
developed distal shelf, shelf margn crenulated, palm with 
one rectangular and one subtriangular tooth, palm defining 
corner, with tooth and 2 robust setae; dactylus closing short 
of palm end. 
Epimeron 1 posteroventral corner rounded. Epimera 2-3 
posteroventral corner subquadrate. Urosome with 3 pairs 
of uropods. Urosomite 1 short, 1.2 times as long as broad. 
Uropod 1 peduncle 2.1 times as long as broad, with well 
developed ventromedial spine, 4 times as long as broad; inner 
ramus 1.2 times peduncle length; outer ramus about 3 A length 
of inner ramus. Uropod 2 well developed, biramus, without 
