. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 162 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Material: i ?, paratype, A12649 carapace length, 5-8 mm, carapace breadth 5-2 mm. Station BRU 390 S. Depth 138 metres, i $, ovigerous, Holotype, A12648, carapace length 7 • 5 mm, carapace breadth 6 • 8 mm. Station BRU 390 E. Depth 350 metres, i ?, carapace length 4 mm, carapace breadth 3-5 mm. Station BRU 358 C. Depth 370 metres. Remarks: These specimens are most closely related to E. zurstrasseni Doflein, recorded by the Valdivia from the East Afr
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 162 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Material: i ?, paratype, A12649 carapace length, 5-8 mm, carapace breadth 5-2 mm. Station BRU 390 S. Depth 138 metres, i $, ovigerous, Holotype, A12648, carapace length 7 • 5 mm, carapace breadth 6 • 8 mm. Station BRU 390 E. Depth 350 metres, i ?, carapace length 4 mm, carapace breadth 3-5 mm. Station BRU 358 C. Depth 370 metres. Remarks: These specimens are most closely related to E. zurstrasseni Doflein, recorded by the Valdivia from the East African coast, but differ from this species in that there is no minute spine between the pairs of frontal spines. The external orbital spine is not dorso-ventrally flattened. The grooves defining the carapace regions are not so well defined as in zurstrasseni. Family Leucosiidae Mursilia dentata Bell, 1855 Fig. 5 a-e Nursilia dentata Bell, 1855: 309. Alcock, 1896: 260. Rathbun, 1911: 203. Description: Entire carapace finely and evenly granular, roughly hexagonal. Front with large raised supra-orbital lobes, with single smaller ventro-lateral exorbital tooth. Indistinct mid-dorsal carapace carina, stretching from base of supra-orbital lobes to ist median spine in cardiac region. 4 blunt prominent spines in median cardiac region, most anterior of which largest, flanked by. 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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