The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea)

Figure 98. Epulaega fracta (Hale, 940). NMNZ Cr.9260. A–D, pereopods , 2, and 7, respectively.
plumose setae, and 0 short simple setae; article 5 .3
times as long as article 4, 2.8 times as long as wide, inferior
margin with 0 palmate setae, anterodistal angle
with cluster of 8 short simple setae (and palmate);
flagellum with 18 articles, extending to pereonite 4.
Frontal lamina flat, as wide as long, diamond shaped,
anterior margin acute, forming median angle, posterior
margin forming narrow stem.
Mandible molar process present, small distinct flat
lobe; palp article 2 with 23 distolateral setae (stiff),
palp article 3 with 22 setae. Maxillule with 5 terminal
RS ( large, 4 slender, plus 2 stubs). Maxilla mesial lobe
with 3 RS ( straight, 2 biserrate); lateral lobe with 3 RS
(recurved). Maxilliped endite with 0 apical setae (endite
large); palp article 2 with 2 RS (curved, slender); article
3 with 4 RS (all slender, weakly recurved); article
4 with 4 hooked RS; article 5 partly fused to article
4, small subcircular lobe, with RS (biserrate; plus
simple seta).
Pereopod 1 basis 3.0 as long as greatest width; ischium
0.4 times as long as basis, inferior margin with
0 RS, superior distal margin with 2 RS (one stub-like);
merus inferior margin with 3 RS, set as two groups
(of 2 and ), superior distal angle with 0 RS ( short
simple seta); carpus 0.9 as long as merus, inferior
margin with 0 RS; propodus .3 times as long as proximal
width, inferior margin with RS (opposite base
of dactylus), propodal palm simple, without blade
or process, dactylus smoothly curved, .0 as long as
propodus. Pereopod 2 ischium inferior margin with
RS, superior distal margin with 2 RS; merus inferior
margin with 5 RS, set as two groups, superior distal
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