The Isopods of Abyssal Depths in the Atlantic Ocean

142 ROBERT J. MENZIES
Figure 34. A-G: Ewycope vicarius Vanhoffen. A: lateral view; B: maxilliped; C: first
pleopod; D: first pleopod. E: mandible; F: second male pleopod; G: apex of female
operculum. H-L: Ewycope complanata Bonnier. H: dorsal view male; I: first male pleopod;
J: uropod; K: maxilliped and maxillipedal epipod; L: second pleopod. M: Ewycope
murrayi Walker, dorsal view. N: Ewycope parva Bonnier, ventro-lateral view of abdomen.
specimen (Hansen, 1916, p. 139). Hansen (1916)
cites other finds.
This species was not collected by Vema.
Eurycope parva Bonnier
Figure 34 N
Synonyms: Eurycope parva Bonnier, 1896, p. 60, PI.
33; — Hansen, 1916, pp. 149-150, PI. 13.
Diagnosis: Eurycope with a broad blunt frontal area
apex lacking spines and about one-half the width of
cephalon. Pleon without spine incisions or projections.
Peraeonal somites 5-6 fused along midline. Female
operculum with recurved spine directed toward
cephalon and located at distal end of operculum.
Uropodal exopod scarcely one-third as long as endopod.
(After Hansen, op. cit.).
Measurements: Male 3 mm. long (Hansen, op. cit.).
Type locality: North Atlantic, Bay of Biscay,
latitude 44° 17' N., longitude 4° 38' W., 950 meters
(Hansen, op. cit.).
Distribution: Taken by Ingolf at Station 36, Davis
Strait, latitude 61° 50' N., longitude 56° 21' W., 2702
meters, temperature 1.5° C, two specimens; and by
Thor from southwest of the Faeroes, latitude 61° 15' N.,
longitude 9° 35' W., 872-970 meters, one female
(Hansen, op. cit.). This species was not captured by
the Vema.