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Description

provided by NMNH Antarctic Invertebrates

“Jaeropsis waltervadi sp. n.

Diagnosis

Cephalon dorsally broadly convex, with frontal plate anteriorly slightly concave, lateral margins smooth. Lateral margins of pleotelson bearing 7 small denticulations. Uropodal basis about as long as broad, inner distal angle rounded, unarmed, hardly extending beyond narrowly rounded pleotelsonic apex. Body with broadly rounded median raised area on pleotelson and Vth to VIIth pereional segments, becoming a double, more defined ridge on perieonal segments I to IV.

Material

Holotype SAM-A13646 (3' 2,9 mm Walter's Shoal, 38-46 meters depth.

Paratype SAM-A13646 c3' 2,4 mm Walter's Shoal, 38-46 meters depth.

Remarks

The median dorsal ridge, unarmed uropodal basis, and shape of the frontal plate of this species make it distinct from any previously described species of Jaeropsis.

(Kensley, 1980: 367-369)

Depth range

provided by World Register of Marine Species
38-46

Reference

Van Wyk, B. & Malan, S. (1988) Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria Region Struik, Cape Town Pages 54 - 55 (Includes a picture).

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