Stebbing, 1888: 1178. 1906: 664.

“Head, mouthparts, peraeon with its sideplates and gnathopods 1 and 2 (female) nearly as in Xenodice, but differing as follows. Mandible with spines in spine-row numerous. Maxilla 1, inner plate with, a single apical seta. Maxillipeds with finger of palp as long as 3rd joint. Antenna 1 with elongate 1st joint (the rest unknown). Pleon segment 4 not especially elongate. Pleopods, peduncle distally widened. Uropods 1–3 biramous. Uropod 3 with short broad peduncle and small rami, the outer longer than the peduncle, the inner minute. Telson simple.”

One species, Camacho bathyplous.

Camacho bathyplous Stebbing, 1888.

Stebbing, 1888: 1179, pl. 117.

Coutière, 1904: 8.

Stebbing, 1906: 664. 1908: 87–88.

Schellenberg, 1925: 197.

Most of the above references are by name only. Coutière draws attention to the relationship of C. bathyplous to his Grandidierella mahafalensis from Madagascar; Schellenberg lists it in a distributional table of the West African fauna as being from “Kapland O. -Kuste” and “Tiefsee.” Stebbing (1908) is the only paper to add new information. Two female specimens have been taken. The Challenger specimen was taken in the New Zealand faunal area at Station 168. Details of this station as given by Stebbing (1888) are “July 8. 1874. 40°28′S. 177°43′E. 1100 fathoms, bottom blue mud. Bottom temperature 37. 2°.” The South African specimen was taken at a depth of 47 fathoms, bottom “sand, shell and rock”; latitude 33°9′30″S, longitude 28°3′0″E. Sizes 11 mm. (S.Af.) and 16 mm. (N.Z.).

Dr. K. H. Barnard has advised me by private communication of the following additional South African localities: Off Cape St. Blaize (Agulhas Bank), 42 fathoms; Lion's Head (i.e., Cape Town) S.E. ¼ E. distant 50 miles, 230 fathoms.