Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . There is also asingle small tubercle in the middle of thesegment on the dorsal surface. The peduncleof the uropoda is long and slender, andreaches almost to the extremity of the ter-minal spines of the abdomen. The branchesare about equal in length and also about as long as the peduncle. The first pair of legs are very small, short, and feeble. The fol-lowing six pairs are robust and similar in character. The second, third, and fourth pairs gradually in-crease in length. All the articles arelong and
Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . There is also asingle small tubercle in the middle of thesegment on the dorsal surface. The peduncleof the uropoda is long and slender, andreaches almost to the extremity of the ter-minal spines of the abdomen. The branchesare about equal in length and also about as long as the peduncle. The first pair of legs are very small, short, and feeble. The fol-lowing six pairs are robust and similar in character. The second, third, and fourth pairs gradually in-crease in length. All the articles arelong and slender, especially the merusand propodus. The legs terminate inbi-unguiculate dactyli. Only a single specimen, a male, wascollected at station 4781, on the wayfrom Petrel Bank, Bering Sea, toMcDonald Bay, Agattu Island, Aleu-tians, by the passage east of Semisopo-chnoi and Amchitka Islands at lat. 52°14 30 N.; long. 174° 13 E. at a depthof 300 fathoms in fine gray sand andpebbles. An imperfect specimen, a male, also comes from the samelocality. Type-specimen.—Cat. No. 39521, Fig. 42.—Microprotus leg. X 141. no 1701. NORTHWEST PACIFIC ISOPODS—RICHARDSON. 119 Family MUNNOPSIML Genus MUNNOPSIS M. Saps. MUNNOPSIS LATIFRONS Beddard.
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