. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. CHARACTERISTIC DEEP-SEA TYPES. — CRUSTA( 47 fathoms, represent a new and very peculiar family, of which the species are often abundant in deep water. Their exceedingly long and very delicate legs, three to four times the length of the body, tipped with fascicles of long setae, are apparently intended as an adaptation for resting on very soft oozy bottoms. New species of the little known genus Oplophorus, and the new genera Acanthephyra (Fig. 246), Notostomus, and Menin- godora (Fig. 247), make up a group
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. CHARACTERISTIC DEEP-SEA TYPES. — CRUSTA( 47 fathoms, represent a new and very peculiar family, of which the species are often abundant in deep water. Their exceedingly long and very delicate legs, three to four times the length of the body, tipped with fascicles of long setae, are apparently intended as an adaptation for resting on very soft oozy bottoms. New species of the little known genus Oplophorus, and the new genera Acanthephyra (Fig. 246), Notostomus, and Menin- godora (Fig. 247), make up a group of species of which almost nothing was known before the explorations of the "Blake," although they are very frequently taken in the trawl at great depths. The structure of the articular appendages of these species is very much like that of the schizopods and the majority of larval ma- crurans. Some of the species of Notostomus grow to a large size, are very deep crimson when first taken from the water, and are among the most striking of all the abyssal Caridea. The only Penaeidae which have been as yet described are from. Fig-. 247. — Meningodora. I. (). 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 Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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