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Protosquilla trispinosa (White).

Gondactylus trispinosus White, List Crust. Brit. Mus., p. 87, 1847; Miers, Cat. N.Z. Crust., p. 90, 1876. Protosquilla trispinosa Chilton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 23, p. 61.

This species has been recorded by Heller from Auckland. It is widely distributed in Australian and Indo-Pacific seas, but, so far as I am aware,

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is not yet represented in any local collection. It is quite possible that it may occur in the northern part of New Zealand, and the recent rediscovery of some of the species assigned to New Zealand by Heller which were thought at one time to be errors makes it desirable to keep this species still on the list as a possible occasional visitant to New Zealand seas.

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