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, W of Farquhar Group,
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,
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, carapace detached, without maxillipeds, major cheliped or pereopods 24).
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Figure 8.
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Seychelles. MNHN IU-2016-8095, holotype female, 4.9 mm: a, carapace, pleon; b, carapace; c, anterior carapace, eyestalks, antennular, antennal peduncles; d, anterior carapace, eyestalks, antennular, antennal peduncles, mandible; e, telson, uropod (representative marginal setae only); f, thoracic sternite 7, pereopodal coxae 3, 4; g, major cheliped (left, mesial); h, i, pereopods 2, 3. MNHN IU-2016-8096, paratype ovigerous female, 2.8 mm: j, minor cheliped (right, mesial). Scale bars = 1 mm.
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. Major cheliped merus 1.7 times as long as wide, lower margin with obsolete basal tooth; propodus palm 1.1 times as long as carpus, as long as wide, without wide gape; fixed finger 0.6 length of palm; dactylus as long as fixed finger. Uropod endopod oval-tapering, widest proximally, 1.4 times as long as greatest width; upper surface with 2 spiniform setae in middle row; anterior margin slightly convex; exopod as wide as length of anterior margin. Telson 1.3 times as wide as long, narrowing posteriorly; posterolateral margins with 1 spiniform seta, posterior margin with median tooth.
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. Rostrum obsolete. Carapace dorsally convex, highest at posterior third, as long as pleomeres 12 combined; orbital margin almost transverse, set well back from anterolateral angle such that eyestalks appear inset; anterolateral angle directed anteriorly; subanterolateral margin oblique; branchiostegal sclerite elongate-oval, not completely isolated, protected laterally by slightly domed section dorsal margin of branchiostegite; anterior margin of branchiostegite convex; cervical groove deeply incised, reaching linea thalassinica anteriorly, traversing close to posterior margin of carapace, postcervical length about 3% of total carapace length. Thoracic sternite 7 wider than long, anterior margin with prominent rounded median lobe; ventral surface flat. Pleomere 1 tergite with transverse groove, posterior half much wider than anterior half. Pleomere 2 as long as wide. Pleomeres 35 each wider than long; pleura each with patch of plumose setae. Pleomere 6 about as long as wide, 1.2 times as long as pleomere 5, with posterior lateral groove dorsal to ridge leading to lateral notch.
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Minor cheliped (of
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) carpus-palm upper margin 0.9 times carapace length. Ischium upper margin smooth, lower margin with row of 7 spines. Merus about 0.8 length of ischium; upper margin convex; lower margin unarmed. Carpus wider distally, 1.2 times as long as merus, 1.8 times as long as wide. Palm slightly swollen, 1.2 times as long as wide; upper margin barely convex; lower margin sharply carinate, with row of long setae extending onto fixed finger. Fixed finger deep, triangular, as long as palm, cutting edge smooth. Dactylus as long as palm, curved; cutting edge smooth.
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<emphasis id="B965EACAFF944467FC81E65DFC62FAF5" box="[817,930,1363,1384]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="178">Etymology.</emphasis>
From the
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<emphasis id="B965EACAFF944467FC81E671FC73FA09" box="[817,947,1407,1428]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="178">Distribution.</emphasis>
Western Indian Ocean (
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is represented by only two incomplete specimens, which possess the branchiostegal sclerite that characterises this genus as well as general features of the pereopods and tailfan. The new species is instantly recognisable by extremely short postcervical region of the carapace, about 3% of the total carapace length instead of the 25% seen in all other species. The sharp anterior lobes on the eyestalks are unusual something similar is seen in
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<emphasis id="B965EACAFF944467FA22E59EFC66F95F" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="178">A. spinoculata</emphasis>
(
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and
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<emphasis id="B965EACAFF944467FBC1E5A3FB24F95F" box="[1137,1252,1709,1730]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="178">A. thorsoni</emphasis>
(
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)
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, but neither has the short postcervical region. Neither of these species, nor most others (except
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<emphasis id="B965EACAFF944467FB02E5E9FA8AF966" box="[1202,1354,1766,1788]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="178">A. aqabaensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B965EACAFF944467FA22E5E9FC75F885" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="178">A. amplimaxilla</emphasis>
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[
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]), possess the deeply set eyestalks between prominent anterolateral lobes seen in
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<emphasis id="B965EACAFF944467FAB3E42EFA61F8A8" box="[1283,1441,1824,1845]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="178">A. seychellensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Neither of the
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specimens, one an ovigerous female, possesses a gonopore on the coxa of pereopod 5.
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