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Volume 43, 1910
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Genus Lysiosquilla Dana.

“Stomatopoda having the 6th abdominal segment separated from the telson by a movable joint; the hind-body depressed, loosely articulated and wide; the dactylus of the raptorial claw without a basal enlargement, but with not less than 5 marginal teeth; no more than 4 denticles, and often

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only 1, between the intermediate and submedian marginal spines of the telson, which is usually wider than long; and the outer spines of the basal prolongation of the uropod usually longer than the inner one.”(Bigelow.)