Part 2 - Sphaeromatidae::“Cute As Buttons”
Part 2 - Sphaeromatidae::“Cute As Buttons”
Part 2 - Sphaeromatidae::“Cute As Buttons”
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202 FLABELLIFERA • SPHAEROMATIDAE<br />
into the subtropics and tropics. The deep- and abyssal-dwelling species usu<br />
ally lack eyes. The animals are epibenthic, living in the upper few centime<br />
ters of the bottom sediment, where they are scavengers and carnivores.<br />
Serolis Leach, 1818<br />
DIAGNOSIS Body markedly dorsoventrally flattened. Coxal plates produced<br />
laterally. Mandible having lacinia mobilis and single spine. Maxillipedal<br />
palp of three articles (rarely two to four). Pereopod 2 exhibiting sexual di<br />
morphism, subchelate in cJ, ambulatory in 9. Pleopods 1-3, peduncles elon<br />
gate, rami subelliptical. Pleopod 3, exopod uniarticulate.<br />
Serolis mgrayi Menzies and Frankenberg, 1966<br />
Figure 89<br />
DIAGNOSIS S 4.5 mm, ovigerous 9 4.7 mm. Eyes present. Cephalon with<br />
two middorsal tubercles. Pereonites 2—4 each with faint rounded tubercle<br />
just mesial to coxal suture. Pereon and pleon with faint middorsal longitudi<br />
nal carina bearing small blunt tubercle on posterior margin of each segment.<br />
Pleonites 1 and 2 with lateral margins not contributing to body outline, over<br />
lapped by pereonite 6. Pleotelson broadly triangular, with lateral carina in<br />
anterior half; apex truncate. Uropodal rami reaching to or slightly beyond<br />
pleotelsonic apex.<br />
RECORDS Off North Carolina, 18-34 m; off South Carolina, 22 m; off<br />
Georgia, 18-47 m; Florida Keys, 18-88 m; Trinidad; Venezuela, 95 m; Flor<br />
ida, Gulf of Mexico, 11-88 m.<br />
Family <strong>Sphaeromatidae</strong> H. Milne Edwards, 1840<br />
DIAGNOSIS Antennular peduncle of three articles, antennal peduncle of five<br />
articles. Mandible stout, lacinia mobilis and molar usually well developed,<br />
palp of three articles. Maxillipedal palp of five articles. Mouthparts in some<br />
genera metamorphosed and somewhat reduced in ovigerous 9 . Pleon of five<br />
partially or completely fused pleonites, often indicated by lateral sutures,<br />
plus dorsally convex and sometimes inflated pleotelson. Uropods lateral, ex<br />
opod free if present, endopod fused with sympod. Sexual dimorphism often<br />
marked, especially in pleotelsonal structure. Animal often capable of con<br />
globating or folding over. Young brooded in internal pouches or anterior or<br />
posterior pockets; oostegites variable in number, if present.