Parapandalus simulatrix Chace 1985

P. simulatrix Chace, 1985 Description. Rostrum far overreaching antennal scale, armed dorsally, on basal crest only, with 6���9 teeth, including 2���4 on carapace posterior to level of orbital margin, 1 or more posteriormost teeth sometimes with faint, incomplete basal suture, none with barbed tips, armed ventrally with 29���49 teeth; abdomen without posteromesial tooth or median dorsal carina on 3rd somite; eye broadly subpyriform, maximum diameter about 1/4 carapace length, ocellus represented by tapering, subtruncate lobe, broadening slightly rather than constricted at juncture with cornea; 3rd maxilliped with epipod, penultimate segment from 11/10 to more than 4/3 times as long as terminal segment; 2nd pereopods subequal without epipod, bearing 14���21 carpal articles (Chace 1985). Distribution. Known only from the Philippine at depths of 216���472 m (Chace 1985).
Published as part of Ahamed, Ferdous, Cardoso, Irene A., Ahmed, Zoarder F., Hossain, Md. Y. & Ohtomi, Jun, 2017, An overview of the genus Plesionika Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Caridea, Pandalidae) in Asian waters, pp. 575-593 in Zootaxa 4221 (5) on page 588, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.5.6, http://zenodo.org/record/253575
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