. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 112 NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETEST 2 92 cylindrical, about four times as long as wide, smooth and bare; carpus more than one and one-half times as long as either chela or merus. Thii'd pereiopod with propodus more than twice as long as dactyl. A small species, maximum postorbital carapace length about 7 mm. Habitat.—Fresh and brackish water. Distribution.—West Indies and Republic of Guatemala to Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil (Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Saint Croix, Barbados).. Figure —Palaemon {Palaemon) pandaliformis, male (carap
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 112 NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETEST 2 92 cylindrical, about four times as long as wide, smooth and bare; carpus more than one and one-half times as long as either chela or merus. Thii'd pereiopod with propodus more than twice as long as dactyl. A small species, maximum postorbital carapace length about 7 mm. Habitat.—Fresh and brackish water. Distribution.—West Indies and Republic of Guatemala to Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil (Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Saint Croix, Barbados).. Figure —Palaemon {Palaemon) pandaliformis, male (carapace length mm) from East Luquillo, Puerto Rico (D. S. Erdman). Genus Troglocubanus 24. Troglocubanus calcis (Rathbun) Figure 28b Palaemonetes calcis Rathbun, 1912 [part], p. 451, pi. 1: figs. 1-3, 5 [type-locality: cave between Madruga and Aguacate, Provincia de La Habana, Cuba]. Troglocubanus calcis—Holthuis, 1950b, p. 11; 1952, p. 144, pi. 36. Diagnosis.—Carapace with antenna! spine arising from anterior margin, without branchiostegal or hepatic spines. Rostrum reaching beyond end of antennular peduncle, but not to end of antenna! scale, tapering gradually to terminal point, slightly convex dorsally, straight or slightly concave ventrally; armed with single dorsal tooth placed on carapace slightly behind level of orbital margin. Eyes reduced, cornea without pigment. Second pereiopods subequal, slender, fingers about one and one-half times as long as palm, meeting throughout their length, smooth and bare, mth single small tooth in extreme proximal part of opposable margin of dactyl, mimovable finger un- armed; palm subcylindrical, swoUen in proximal two-thirds, about two and one-half to three times as long as wide, smooth and bare; carpus distinctly longer than palm and slightly longer than Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustr
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