Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . lagella of antennule and antenna multiarticulate. Mandi-bular palp three-segmented. Maxillipedal endite reaching almost to end of palp;latter of two segments. Pereopod 1 subchelate, propodus expanded; pereopods2-3 ambulatory; pereopods 4-7 with rectangular carpus. Telson with or withoutstatocyst. Type species Calathura crenulata Richardson, 1905. Accalathura indica (Nierstrasz, 1941) Fig. 47 Metanthura indica Nierstrasz, 1941: 247, figs 15-24. Accalathura indica: Kensley, 1977: 250, fig. 8; 1978fl: 44, fig. 20A. Poore
Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . lagella of antennule and antenna multiarticulate. Mandi-bular palp three-segmented. Maxillipedal endite reaching almost to end of palp;latter of two segments. Pereopod 1 subchelate, propodus expanded; pereopods2-3 ambulatory; pereopods 4-7 with rectangular carpus. Telson with or withoutstatocyst. Type species Calathura crenulata Richardson, 1905. Accalathura indica (Nierstrasz, 1941) Fig. 47 Metanthura indica Nierstrasz, 1941: 247, figs 15-24. Accalathura indica: Kensley, 1977: 250, fig. 8; 1978fl: 44, fig. 20A. Poore, 1980: 59. Diagnosis Antennular and antennal flagella of about twenty-eight and thirty-fivearticles respectively. Eyes well developed. Pleonite 6 longest, bilobed. Telsonelongate-lanceolate, with single basal statocyst. Uropodal exopod elongate-oval. Type material Whereabouts unknown. Other material SAM-A15348, 1 ovig. 9, off Mozambique, 100 m. SAM-A17577, 1 ovig.$, off Natal, 90 m. SAM-A17578, 1 S. off Sodwana Reef, Zululand, 17 m. 170 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Fig. 47. Accalathura indica. $ dorsal in mm. SOUTHERN AFRICAN ANTHURIDEA 171 Distribution Natal, Mozambique, to Java Sea, 17-100 m. Accalathura laevitelson (Kensley, 1975) Fig. 48 Katanthura laevitelson Kensley, 1975^: 69, fig. 17; 1978fl: 50, fig. laevitelson: Poore, 1980: 65. Diagnosis Eyes present. Pleonites 1-6 free. Maxilliped with strong endite, palptwo-segmented. Pereopods 2-3 smaller than pereopod 1; pereopods 4-6 withrectangular carpus not underriding propodus. Single telsonic statocyst present. Type material Holotype, SAM-A13552, 1 manca, 6,4 mm, off Still Bay, 30 m. Distribution Off Still Bay, 30 m. Remarks G. Poore (1981 pers. comm.) has examined this specimen, and isconvinced that it is a manca of an Accalathura species, almost certainly not Because the single specimen is immature, a key to the two species ofsouthern African Accalathura is not included. Colan
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