. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS OF THE WEST INDIES 115 Third pereiopod with propodus slightly more than three times as long as dactyl. A small species, maximum postorbital carapace length about 6 mm. Habitat.—Subterranean fresh water. Distribution.—Known only from the type-locality, a cave in Provincia de La Habana, Figure 28.—Second pleopods, males: a, right, mesial view, Pdaemon {Palaemon) pandali- for^nis shown in figure 26; b, left, mesial view, paratype, Troglocuhanus calcis from cave between Madruga and Aguacate, La Habana Province, Cuba (T
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS OF THE WEST INDIES 115 Third pereiopod with propodus slightly more than three times as long as dactyl. A small species, maximum postorbital carapace length about 6 mm. Habitat.—Subterranean fresh water. Distribution.—Known only from the type-locality, a cave in Provincia de La Habana, Figure 28.—Second pleopods, males: a, right, mesial view, Pdaemon {Palaemon) pandali- for^nis shown in figure 26; b, left, mesial view, paratype, Troglocuhanus calcis from cave between Madruga and Aguacate, La Habana Province, Cuba (T. Barbour); c, right, mesial view, T. eigenmanni from cave near Guira de Melena, La Habana Province, Cuba (P. Perdigon); d, right, mesial view, topotype, T. inermis from cave between Madruga and Aguacate, La Habana Province, Cuba (T. Barbour); e, left, anterior view, holotype, T. jamaicensis from cave near Goshen, Jamaica (modified from Holthuis, 1963a);/, right, anteromesial view, Barbouria cubensis shown in figure 29. 28. Troglocuhanus jamaicensis Holthuis Figure 28e Troglocuhanus jamaicensis Holthuis, 1963a, p. 67, fig. 3 [type-locality: stream in limestone cave near Lucky Hill Cooperative Farm near Goshen, Jamaica]. Diagnosis.—Carapace with minute antennal spine arising from anterior margin, without branchiostegal or hepatic spines. Rostrum not reaching beyond second segment oj antennular peduncle, convex dorsally, sinuous ventrally; unarmed or with small dorsal tooth above posterior margin of orbit. Eyes reduced, cornea without pigment. Second pereiopods subequal, slender, less than one and one-half times as long as palm, meeting throughout their length, smooth and bare, without teeth on opposable margins; palm subcylindrical, slightly swollen, slightly more than two and one-half times as long as wide, smooth and bare; carpus three-fourths as long as chela and about. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally e
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