Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . ive pairs oflegs arise five pairs of incubatory plates. Only the first and fifthpairs are visible, the other three pairs being hidden by the overlap-ping fifth pair. The fifth pair of plates are the largest, and meetalong the middle ventral line of the body; they extend almost theentire length of the thorax. In a lateral view four segments of the thorax are represented byfour coxal plates, bounding the outer extremity of the oral first coxal plate is coalesced with the cephalic ridge, but i
Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . ive pairs oflegs arise five pairs of incubatory plates. Only the first and fifthpairs are visible, the other three pairs being hidden by the overlap-ping fifth pair. The fifth pair of plates are the largest, and meetalong the middle ventral line of the body; they extend almost theentire length of the thorax. In a lateral view four segments of the thorax are represented byfour coxal plates, bounding the outer extremity of the oral first coxal plate is coalesced with the cephalic ridge, but is indi-cated on either side at the posterior extremity of the ridge by a littlepointed projection. One adult female was taken by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheriessteamer AIbatross at Station 4793, Toporkov Island, Harbor of Nikol-ski, Bering Island, north 58° east, 44 miles (54° 48 north, 164° 54east), at a depth of 2,700 fathoms. Description of immature female.—The body is oblong-ovate, 3 8 mm., decreasing gradually in width from the anterior to theposterior extremity. (See fig. 3.).
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