Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . 96 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. DEEP-SEA AMPHIPODS FROM WEST OF CAPE POINT, SOUTH AFRICA 97 specimen (4 on outer plate, 3 on palp), a feature which he considered genericallysignificant. Careful dissection of the present male shows a more usual figure often spines on the outer plate and five on the palp (some of the spines shown byStephensen were broken, indicating that the maxilla may have suffered somedamage, hence his low spine count). Stephensen placed his material close to Eurystheus (= Gammaropsis), butthe
Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . 96 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. DEEP-SEA AMPHIPODS FROM WEST OF CAPE POINT, SOUTH AFRICA 97 specimen (4 on outer plate, 3 on palp), a feature which he considered genericallysignificant. Careful dissection of the present male shows a more usual figure often spines on the outer plate and five on the palp (some of the spines shown byStephensen were broken, indicating that the maxilla may have suffered somedamage, hence his low spine count). Stephensen placed his material close to Eurystheus (= Gammaropsis), butthe species has subsequently been removed to Ischyroceridae (J. L. Barnard1962a) and the structure of uropod 3 has since come to be regarded as . . withelongate peduncle, rami short . . outer ramus hooked apically (J. L. Barnard1973). In his original description Stephensen makes no mention of a hookedouter ramus, although such a feature could possibly be inferred from his figure , he described the rami as . . narrow, acute, equal in length andbreadth—a description consistent with present observat
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