| Diagnosis |
The carapace is smooth dorsally, with a pair of epigastric scales and a weakly distinct cervical grooves. Rostrum is narrow and triangular, lateral margins subparallel, unarmed. Frontal margins concave. Orbit excavated, outer orbital angle with a spine. Armed anterolateral angle with a small spine. Branchial margin armed with spines. Abdominal somites unarmed. Telson divided into 9 plates. Sternite 3 blunt anterolaterally, anterior margin almost straight with central notch, sternite 4 broadly triangular. The eyes are unarmed, immobile, and have epistomial spine. Article 1 of antennule with well-developed dorsolateral and distolateral spines. Mxp3 merus is rectangular in lateral view and has dorsal carina. P1 moderately slender, with some spines, with ventral pads on the palm, and fixed fingers without denticulate carina on distolateral margin. P2-4 slender, unarmed. Meri and propodi are cylindrical, dactyli stout, curved, flexor margin proximally reduced with teeth along all margins. Epipods absent from all pereopods (Ref. 128308). |