. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 240 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Fig. 31. Cyclaspis australora sp. nov. Adult male. A. Lateral view. B. Dorsal view of carapace. C. Detail of eyelobe. D. Pereiopod 1. E. Telsonic somite and uropod. Scale line = 2 mm for A-B, D; 1 mm for C, E. Remarks C. australora is one of the three species of Cyclaspis occurring in southern African waters. It may be distinguished from C. spectabilis by its very much longer and more slender uropods and from C. scissa by the lack of a transverse groove across
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 240 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Fig. 31. Cyclaspis australora sp. nov. Adult male. A. Lateral view. B. Dorsal view of carapace. C. Detail of eyelobe. D. Pereiopod 1. E. Telsonic somite and uropod. Scale line = 2 mm for A-B, D; 1 mm for C, E. Remarks C. australora is one of the three species of Cyclaspis occurring in southern African waters. It may be distinguished from C. spectabilis by its very much longer and more slender uropods and from C. scissa by the lack of a transverse groove across the carapace. It apparently falls within Hale's (1944a) Jevis group, most closely resembling a number of unsculptured Indo-Pacific species. Within this group only C. australora and C. herdmanni Caiman, 1904a have the basis of pereiopod 1 subequal in length to the rest of the limb. Comparison with the syntypes of C. herdmanni shows a number of significant differences between the two species. C. australora is about twice the size of C. herdmanni; the anterior face of the carapace is perpendicular in C. australora and normally slanted in C. herdmanni. The distal prolongation of the basis of pereiopod 1 is shorter, while the whole limb is longer in C. australora; the uropods are equal in length to the last three somites together and the peduncle is nearly one and a half times the length of the rami in C. australora, while in C. herdmanni the uropods are little longer than the last two somites together and the peduncle is subequal in length to the rami. Distribution Apparently endemic to the warmer waters of the south-eastern coast of Africa from Still Bay to northern Natal at depths from 9 to 27 m; not a common Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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