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Description of Female
Length, 3 mm.; depth, 1½ mm.; width, 1 mm. Body very rotund. Gnathopods and peraeopods as in male. Carpus posterodistal angle in Pr. 1 possibly more sharply produced than in male.
Mandible. Palp much smaller, 3rd segment barely longer than 2nd, a few short bristles on surface.
Antennae. First: Peduncle segments ⅔ length single flagellum segment; flagellum has a few bristles, several long flaccid sensory setae inferiorly. Second: Last 3 peduncle segments ¾ length of single flagellum segment; flagellum conical, surface bristled, as long as 1st antenna.
Epimeral Plates. Posterodistal angle finely serrated.
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Uropods. Margins more strongly serrate than in male. Tip of 1st uropod extending ½ down rami of 3rd; inner ramus of 2nd extending almost as far. First: Peduncle, rami in ratio 16:15. Second: Peduncle, outer and inner ramus in ratio 10:8:7. Telson: Slightly longer than wide, nearly reaching ½ along peduncle of uropod 3.
Hypotypes. Slides L.15 (male, Station 83/51); L.19 (female, Station 95/51).
Localities. Station 75/51, 2 ♂ ♂; 76/51, 1 ♂ ♂; 78/51, 7 ♂ ♂ 2 juv.; 79/51, 52 ♂ ♂; 80/51, 16 ♂ ♂; 81/51, 8 ♂ ♂; 99/51, 1 ♂ ♂; 95/51, 1 ♀; 100/51, 24 ♂ ♂; 106/51, 2 ♂ ♂; 103/51, 1 ♂ ♂; 128/51, 1 ♂ ♂; 48/51, 8 ♂ ♂; 83/51, 4 ♂ ♂.
Distribution: New Zealand; Messina, Mediterranean.